Vanderbilt’s Donald Brady, M.D., background, gives representatives from Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore a tour of the Center for Experiential Learning and Assessment. (photo by Mary Donaldson)
VUSM strengthens effort to help train Singapore colleagues
A group of representatives from Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore observed a pediatric training class at Vanderbilt's Center for Experiential Learning and Assessment earlier this month.
Donald Brady, M.D., associate dean for Graduate Medical Education, hosted the group for the second year in a row to help them learn more about how Vanderbilt organizes and runs its Graduate Medical Education programs as they work toward getting ACGME-International accreditation for their programs.
With mentoring from Vanderbilt, their Phase I programs achieved ACGME-I accreditation last fall and are now in the second of three phases.
Brady and Vanderbilt GME have been instrumental in this effort. He travelled twice last year to Singapore, once on behalf of ACGME-I as a mock institutional site visitor and later as a consultant both for National University Health System and for National Healthcare Group/Tan Tock Seng Hospital in setting up their GME systems.
Twelve of Vanderbilt's training programs — ranging from pediatrics to otolaryngology — have provided mentorship to these institutions as they work toward a system with greater emphasis on curricular organization and competency-based training.
Currently in Singapore, graduate medical education training follows a more apprentice-like system similar to training in the United Kingdom and Australia.