If you haven’t noticed, doctors rank very well in the top 100 jobs mentioned previously. Specialised surgeons (“specialist” doctors who perform surgeries) ranked number 1 with a 75th-percentile income of $22,821, while GPs came in 4th with $14,653.
These are only the 75th-percentile salaries. We can only speculate that at higher percentiles, doctors make much more.
Recall that Manpower Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen once said “You’re getting a bargain for the ministers you get… I worked half as much and earn(ed) five times more when I was in the private sector.” (Channelnewsasia, 9 September 2003)
Dr Ng was a consultant surgeon in private practice before he joined politics.
Even “part-time” general practitioners make a very comfortable living.
Locums are doctors who substitute temporarily for other doctors (see Wordnet definition). They are those whom you see when your family physician goes on a holiday.
The market rate for locums’ pay is $60 to $70 an hour. And it is not uncommon for a locum to get up to $700 per day.
But you ask: Do they get stand-in jobs all the time? The answer is yes. Lots of full-time doctors in private clinics and hospitals frequently need locums to cover them.
By the way, doctors are one of the most respected professions in Singapore. They deserve to be paid well.
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Hi all.
am a local grad , and junior doctor in the system.
would like to give a snapshot of the working conditions from the ground. it may be biased, as it is my own personal view, but i will try to be as accurate as possible. I am not here to quarrel or find fault with anyone or the system, i just want to provide an accurate reflection of a junior doctor’s working life.
1. Pay
– Housemen (or PGY 1/Resident 1) pay was around $2.5 to 2.8K, before cpf etc. ( i have heard that there has been a recent increase, but am unsure of the figures) each call is $100 on weekdays, $150 on weekends. Weekend calls usually start from around 11 am to 8 am the next day (doctors who come back to round on weekends, ie around 7 am to 12 noon, but are NOT on call, do so without being paid OT.) The weekend call pay for a HO adds up to around $6-7 an hour, depending on whether you count the call as starting from 8 m or 11 am. Meal allowance is around $4.50 per meal if one is on call
– MO starting pay is around 3.5-3.7K Call pay is roughly double that of HO. Hence weekend call pay rate is around $12-14 an hr for MOs.
– for local drs from nus, school fees add up to a total of around $90,000, together with a bond of 6 years. Interest kicks in sometime after Housemanship ends. Its is difficult to pay off the loan without help.
Calls
– these are very variable and are specialty dependent.
– for the more generic specialties like General surgery and General medicine, these are usually very busy.
– initially for the Houseman, he may have difficulty finding time to eat meals or go to toilet
– after awhile, most Housemen get used to it and are able to time manage such that they can find time to eat and go toilet
– generally sleep is a luxury. As a houseman, i generally slept less than 30 mins to an hour for each call. did not sleep for most calls in General medicine
– showering during a call is a luxury that cannot be taken for granted.
– depending on department, these may be better for MOs
– For specialties such as ENT and Eye, generally they are able to eat, shower, and sleep more than 3 hours a night. Sometimes, they can even sleep 6-8 hours at night. But also not guranteed
– Note –> certain departments have implemented a night float system which utilizes a separate night team of doctors. This is very good, but requires enough manpower to sustain
3. Morale
– depends on department and senior staff
– generally, fairly low amongst junior drs, because of fatigue
– generally most junior drs start off with an altruistic, self sacrificing attitude.
– however, this is worn down by sheer no. of working hrs and responsibility
– some become very jaded after a few years in the system
– some drs work every day in a month, because of shortages in the department. my previous MO in General Surgery once worked for 10 weeks straight without a day off.
– when pt and family are difficult and have high expectations, or start abusing staff, sending complaint letters, many junior staff have mentioned that they felt like quitting medicine.
– many junior staff experience symptoms of depression due to work and lack of social life
– however, sometimes when patients show gratitude, it really makes the day of the junior doctor.
Conditions for junior Doctors have improved since the past. However, the general population has become more educated and hence much more demanding resulting in new forms of stressors for junior doctors. Pay for Medical Officers has been stagnant for past few years. A perpetual shortage of junior Drs has led to many feeling overworked and unappreciated. This problem may be compounded with the planned opening of 2 new major hospitals in a few years time.
Can anyone tell me what is the difference between Associate Consultant, Consultant and Senior Consultants? Do they all practice independently? I am in the UK where we only have Consultants.
Hi John
After passing the specialist exam, you become an assoicate consultant. After few years, you become consultants and then after few more years you become senior consultants.
Pls contact us if you are keen to join us 🙂
http://www.nhg.com.sg/nhg_03_associate_consultant.asp
Associate Consultant / Consultant
Associate Consultants and Consultants are Specialists who have completed Basic & Advanced Specialist Training. Besides being responsible for patient care, Consultants are senior doctors who are expected to provide leadership to all levels of staff, including teaching and training.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the Associate Consultant/Consultant position, applicants must satisfy the following conditions:
must be accredited as a Specialist by the Specialist Accreditation Board, Ministry of Health.
must be granted medical registration by the Singapore Medical Council (SMC)
must be granted an Employment Pass to work in Singapore
(applicable to non-Singaporean/ non-Singapore PR)
must possess the relevant years of experience
John, iam a consultant in uk, moving to sing as a consultant year 1. Generally you need to have been a consultant in uk for about 2 years before you can go as a consultant.
Apart from a significant difference in pay, there isnot much diffence in the work you do.
Ass cons 1 ,2
Cons 1, 2, 3
Senior cons 1,2,3,4,5
So you have to be very clear which level you want to be when you negotiate your contract.
James Perumal
Good luck,
Thanks HR and James. This makes it clear to me.
I guess Associate Consultants, Consultants and Senior Consultants in Singapore have the same responsibilities as a UK Consultant but the difference in seniority and pay is more formalised than in the UK where everyone holds the same position as a Consultant.
I guess patients would prefer to see a Senior Consultant rather than a Consultant or Associate Consultant? Can they choose the doctor they want to be treated by?
Only private patients can choose the doctor they want to be treated by.
http://www.ttsh.com.sg/patient-guide/outpatient-charges/
Senior Consultant $95
Consultant $83
Associate Consultant $73
I am a consultant in pte practise. When I started, the competition to get into medical school was very keen. The work as a houseman was difficult with long hours and lousy shitty pay. Guess some things always remain the same !!! Hahahah. Also the politics and politicking was terrible with daily bitching fault finding and finger pointing . But then, this is part and parcel of all professions and just just confined to the medical fraternity.
But to everyone who has the guts to endure the crap, the rewards are quite satisfying eventually. If you make it that is,
pay and working conditions in australia is a walk in the park, compared to singapore.
singaporean trained doctors will have no problem passing the australian medical council exams (many sgp drs have passed the MRCP/FRCS exams with flying colors)
i am just wondering why the sgp medical council has not want to get itself accredited with the australian competent authority pathway? we suspect that the reasons are obvious
anyway, do look out for a smiling face speaking in a strong singaporean accent at the 2012 medical recruitment seminar in the UK (with one of the australian desks); we will be targetting sgp and malaysians. 🙂
@reubensimhat – Cheers for the info! But when I did some reading, apparently in aus there’s this thing called the 10 year moratorium? And they can shift you from place to place? Even if you’re on competent authority?
jonathan- you should be able to shift from one site to another site though you are on the competent authority (plus if you are also on the 10 year moratorium). r u a uk grad?
the APHRA (the australian medical board which is now a national body – since 12 months ago) registration does take a bit of time and it is a real pain
i do know of a few friends (on non competent pathways) who were also able to move from site to site .there is a south african graduate working in my practice who is under the 10 year moratorium who managed to move from one town to another town.
the 10 year moratorium is a ‘social contract’ which binds 1. ex overseas students trained in australia 2. international medical graduates
to areas outside metropolitan areas for 10 years.
very complicated. but once one has obtained one’s FRACGP/FRCP, one can work in a district of work force shortage (which can be 30-40 min radius from any capital cities)
good luck.
Thanks for any other informative web site. The place else could I get that kind of information written in such an ideal way? I’ve a project that I’m just now working on, and I have been at the glance out for such information.
Thanks Reuben, yes I’m a UK grad. Would moving around to non metropolitan areas affect family life? How did you handle it? Considering singapore is a known quantity, versus aussie’s unknown factor, do the pros outweigh the cons? thanks loads!
hi
just wanted to find out what a senior consultant means?
what would be the salary for a senior consultant?
what perks do they enjoy in sg?
thanks
Hi Jonathan,( any one else with info)
I’m from uk, just finishing CCT . Looking at Singapore as an option for ? Asso Consultant job.
Do you know what is expected actual take home salary in Sg?
Regards
jon:
yes moving to a non metro area can be problematic for a family man with school going kids.
australia is a big place. if the smaller towns do not suit you, u can move to bigger regional towns like dubbo/wagga wagga where it is better serviced by schools/hospitals/government agencies/universities.
no doubts, if you are out to save up for a deposit for a house in a nice metro area, u may want to give rural practice a trial run.
from what i was told, working in certain public benovalent institution/clinics (quite easy to identify one if you are here in australia), u can have access to salary packaging (ie up to A$75k per year tax free!!) and accomodation is subsidised.
plus the government will provide GPRIPS (a grant paid every 6 months, depending on how ulu your town is from the nearest metro area). if you choose to do hospital on call, u will get the extra income from there too.
but if you are awaiting a big family inheiritance/ have blue blood whereby getting into cosmetic surgery in sgp is no issue, don’t bother to waste your time here ;).
but if u are a nobody like me who is interested in providing a well rounded care to rural clients, do give rural medicine a damn!
good luck. -)
jon- if you are still relatively junior in your career in sg, why not come over to australia to work in a public hospital first (if you are on the competent pathway, i think u will need to be under supervision in an institution for at least a year). from here, u can do some homework in the pros and cons of rural medicine.
good luck mate
Reuben – I can’t thank you enough. Haha, I have no inheritance buddy. Getting through medical school financially was already a challenge. Thank you for your imformative post. My worry was with children in the future – safety and education-wise, but your post cleared it up. Cheers, and thanks again!
Shamdoc- As far as I know, you’re gonna need to negotiate with them directly based on what you’re currently earning, and your medical school needs to be recognized by the SMC.
james perumal
have u moved to sing yet
cud u let me know
jk
jon – my advise to u is not to procrastinate any further if your career in sgp is going nowhere. but if you are already a senior registrar in cosmetic surgery, don’t waste your time here. 🙂
do make your way to oz asap to gain a foot hold here, before they shut their doors again (the policy makers here are fickle minded, unfortunately). at this moment, the doors are wide open, esp for uk grads (attention: ex sgp and malaysian overseas medical students who will find it challenging competing with other EU grads in the uk).
it took me less than 2 years to repay my parents my medical school fees (i came back to oz after doing some MO terms in sgp and i started my aussie hospital locum career which took me all over the country) :). was shitty working in sgp but it was great learning experience. in fact many singapore based hospital MOs can do a lot of the aussie hospital locum jobs – sgp drs are highly regarded here in australia. .
if i can do it, so can you 🙂
eventually settled for gp training.
one of my malaysian friends who is working in a rural general practice (4 years rural gp working experience) (who does hospital on calls too) is making more than A$500k per annum (as much as what a junior general surgeon specialistwill earn in singapore?????? correct me if i am wrong). with the strong aussie dollar, i need not say more. 😉
education wise for your kids – many rural GPs move back to the city when their kids are of school going age. by then, they have secured nice accomodation in prestigigious sydney/melbourne suburbs (all paid up in full). rural gps will make enough to secure their kids in the sydney and melb’s equivalent of ACS/RI.
jon – the take home pay of drs in sgp will not increase any further ;). reasons are obvious if you scroll down this forum – something which you and i know very well :).
in australia, the barriers to registration is much more highly regulated by the colleges and our rice bowel is well protected by our God father, the Australian medical council 🙂
Hi jack, I will be moving towards the end of May. Just waiting for the MOM to send the employment pass papers. What’s the scene with you? James perumal
Shamdoc, please check the earlier entries.
180-240 k depending on speciality.
James Perumal
Hi James,
Thanks
Further 2 queries
1. I’m an anaesthetic CCT in UK. Planning for job in Sg as 1/2 Anaesthetic + 1/2 Pain(with interventions). So which end of scale I could negotiate for?
2. At the end of 2 years, how likely it is that I’ll become Consultant?
I am a radiology trainee in UK, not finished all parts of FRCR yet.
I am moving to singapore for family reasons in next 8-9 months
1.Would I be able to get training position in Radiology?
2. When I finish my exam, would I be eligible for Asso Consultant post staright-away?
james perumal
i have not been lucky getting the correct salary as suggested in your letter.
still trying !!
consultant status without the right salary & perks it will be another struggle for me in sing especially the first 2 years.
Its nice to hear you are moving down to sing & in final stages.well done & thanks for your comments
Thanks again reuben. Everything you say rings really true. (On the sg side, as far as I know.) I’ve got one more question – if I’m looking at another specialty, not gp training, what are the chances of getting it? I suppose it depends from specialty to specialty, but generally speaking? I can’t thank you enough, my friend.
shamdoc, the salary also takes into account the number of procedures you do… I.e, you get a set percentage for the number of cases you do. So a list with 10 facet joint injections will fetch you more cash than you colleague who anaesthetises 3-4 knee replacements.
Iam however not sure if this will be incorporated into ur base salary. The base salary is purely dependent on your seniority.
If you have a dual cct with anaesthetics and pain….hey, obviously you are looking at the higher end of the spectrum.
The progression through the seniority should be easy, ( taking into account there are no major screw ups or fall out with the department).
The pay offered is usually very fair. Negotiations often can be difficult.
James perumal
Good luck
I have just come across this thread as I was thinking of moving back from Australia to Singapore after my surgical fellowship exams (silly factors like char kuay teow play a role)
For those who want to move over to Australia:
1) Its very easy if you have Singaporean / UK qualifications. Aus Med council exams are a walk in the park – I give tutorials to overseas trained doctors (although I am Australian trained and have never sat those exams before)
2) Overtime benefits and allowances are much better than Singapore. I spent a year of fellowship training in Singapore, I can compare the two and tell you.
3) Problem comes only if you are trying for top end specialties like ENT, Plastics, Neurosurg etc in Australia…. many wait 3-5 years prior to getting in. I can’t speak for ophthalmology and dermatology – but they are just as hard.
4) As for family life, Australia is fantastic. A junior doctors life in Australia is easy, but a surgical registrar’s life is pretty absorbing – I work 80-100hours a week and used to scrub in for extra cases when given the opportunity. The key is motivation and not wanting to miss out on learning about complex cases – each case is different.
The only thing that I have noticed about junior doctors in Singapore – and I say this at a risk of being flogged in a forum like this: There is a general feeling of “sufferage” – i.e. Singapore is so tough. While the work hours are long, work is NOT tough… … my buddy here is an african who sat this AMC exams in a refugee camp, then learn english watching TV (he is french speaking) – he works without complaint, is a fine surgeon, speak flowing fluid english…
Medicine is a fine career – hours spent slogging as a junior registrar will only pay dividends when one of more senior. The clinical acumen gained is priceless! In large hospitals in Australia it is not uncommon to find registrars starting ward rounds at 6am and finishing their day at 8pm, then staying back to study two hours, prior to heading to the gym for a quick workout, then some sleep! Of course, surgery tends to attract the more motivated; and again, can’t speak for other areas of practice.
My 2c
Cheers!
Hi James Perumal
Thanks.
Its good to hear that you have been able to finalise your move to S’pore.
As I mentioned, my CCT is due in few months, and am I’ve already got Faculty of Pain medicine, UK’s qualification of FFPMRCA with 1 year of fellowship training. Hence will be eligible for Pain+ Anaesthetic consultant in UK in few months.
I am just wondering that, is it better to take up a cons post in UK & go to S’pore in 1-2 yrs time or to leave earlier( if I get a good deal)?
Any thoughts, pros, cons…. What does ur research indicate?
BW
Hey does anyone know the salaries of the residents of these specialities?
Pediatrics
Orthopaedic Surgery
Family Medicine
Opthamology
OB & GYN
Thx very much!
Hi I am graduated from china in 2002, since then I am working in emergency department as MO. Now a days I am in Saudi Arabia working as emergency physician MO.?
I want to move singapore as pursue career in emergency medicine.
What would be chances for me getting job in EM?
How much salary I would be offered?
How much I’ll get house rent?
Same my wife is obs & Gyne MO?
For her same question… Answer any body please……
Thanks a lot
boys and girls who are interested in exploring the possiblity of working in brunei . just found a site from the doctors mess hall of brunei. do check it out. will be good for people with families. apparently the school fees for children at international schools are subsidised whereas
http://doctorsbrunei.blogspot.com.au/
can someone here clarify if specialists drs dependents from western nations who are working in sgp are given international school fee subsidies whereas it is not applicable to drs from asian states?
Hi,
I am a graduate of biology seems so hard to find a job on my specialization in Singapore. Any recommendation? probably how much is the basic pay for the biologist?
dear all,
please provide me some urgent information !!!!
I am a surgeon and asso.prof in Surgery graduated from India first,then have acquired FRCS -Glasgow in the year 2000,Currently I am based in Malaysia since 5 years with a gross earning of MRm 16500 [after tax deduction]
I have been offered in Singapore,position of Resident Physician in Surgery dept with a salary of SGD Basic 8000+500 Splst allow +1000 House rent=9500 plus bonus+on call etc
Is it worth it?
Please advice me frankly
thank you in anticipation
http://www.tremeritus.com/2012/03/28/malaysian-born-cross-dressing-doctor-exposes-himself-to-teen/
medical doctor with Changi General Hospital pleaded guilty on Tue (27 Mar) to exposing himself to a university female student.
Apparently, he was dressing himself up as a junior college schoolgirl when he committed the crime.
Dr Ivan Ngeow Ko Yen, 37, was first charged in Aug 2010 with insulting the modesty of the then 19-year-old university student.
Dressing as a junior college schoolgirl in a school uniform complete with a top and a skirt, he was seen loitering at a lift lobby on the ground floor of a block in Clementi.
The girl first saw him at her block’s void deck, but ignored him.
However, he then lifted his skirt to expose himself to the girl.
A police report was made by the girl later and Dr Ngeow was arrested the following month.
Ngeow, who is out on S$10,000 bail, will be sentenced on 24 Apr. For the offence, he could be jailed up to one year and fined.
TRE readers have been trawling the Net and sending in more information about the doctor. Apparently, he came from Malaysia and has studied in RI and VJC:
http://www.oocities.org/collegepark/quad/3053/ivan.html
It’s July 2002, I’ve completed 6 years of undergraduate medical training at The University of Melbourne, Australia. I trained at the Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre Clinical School. I graduated on Saturday, 4 December 1999, and thence returned to the beautiful country of Malaysia, land of my birth. I am employed by Singapore Health Services Ltd as a Medical Officer, currently posted to Cardiology in Changi General Hospital.
I spent the first 5 years of primary education in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, before transferring to Singapore. I am a Rafflesian-Victorian, in that order. The four years I spent in Raffles Institution were fabulous years. I particularly cherish memories of the Raffles Institution Military Band. I was the cornet/trumpet section leader in 1991, having stayed in the same section all my school life. Special mention must be made of my all-time buddy, Zakeer. He also stayed in the same section all his school life (Pri Sch inclusive). He’s a cool dude. We’re mates like the Right and Left Alt keys on your keyboard, hehe. I stood on the right side of the field centreline; Zak on the left. And I mention too all the other batchmates of mine. We went through thick and thin, “blood, sweat and tears” in our days in RIMB. That’s why, till this day, we’re still great mates and still in close contact with one another. You can glimpse some old photos of us in the RIMB link above.
Alas, I was not able to join most of them in RJC after the O levels. I found myself posted to Victoria Junior College, and quite reluctantly I went. But VJC’s a great place, and 92S14 is the greatest CT group of all, heheh. Hardcore as I am, I continued playing the trumpet in the VJC Symphonic Band. Legend has it that I was the pioneer Rafflesian in VJC Band. I haven’t been able to confirm or refute this.
My interests, besides playing the trumpet and piano, include plane-watching, flight simulation, computer programming and IRC. Catch me as reeed on GalaxyNet, in the #band or #vjc channels. My ICQ UIN is 6193841. On my home PC I run X Windows on FreeBSD, my preferred Operating System. It’s a flavour of Berkeley UNIX for the Intel i386 architecture. I write in C and x86 assembler. I also do some Web script programming in Perl.
It is not known if he continues to remain as a Malaysian or has converted to Singapore citizen.
my take
1. please refrain from exercising such sia sway acts in the public that will harm your career and family
2. dr ivan obviously has been too complacent to secure his australian medical registration, so that he can go back there to work (if i were him, i will be too malu to work in sgp). coming back to singapore to do his housemanship and not securing his australian registration was a VERY bad move
I think it is stated in his online CV that he returned to Malaysia upon graduation from Melbourne Uni. Which means that if he needs an Ahpra general registration, he will need to return to Australia to redo his internship or obtain an Australian college fellowship via the specialist pathway. I’d have to say this, he should have completed his internship here prior to going back, but I guess it’s still not too late as he’s still an Australian trained graduate, he’d better pray he is still a Malaysian citizen if a potential employer here is going to do a criminal history check. But from a Singaporean perspective, his professional reputation in SG is finished.
Has anyone here ever worked for International SOS?Esp as a coordinating doctor?I will appreciate if someone can share their experience.thanks
I didn’t, but I have a friend who did. He is a medical graduate from India who spent 2 years in Hanoi. Pay was great and the clientele were largely, if not solely English speaking expats. No career progression though.
iSOS is not a bad company to work for.
just to share my experience: i applied for a GP job with this kiam kana singaporean healthcare group (based in shanghai) and they expected me to work like a dog for pittance. the CEO’s son who was based there, another kiam kana who lived it rough in the low end housing estate in shanghai!
i also enquired with iSOS (similar job scope in china) and they were prepared to pay me higher wages compared to that sgp health care group (not hard to guess which one).
my advise is to do your homework and compare the different pay packages.
Suan,Kim: Thanks for your feedback.
Suan:Staying as a GP or escort doc will of course not give u any career prospects but I am looking at the administrative wide,ie. climbing all the way up to Medical Director post or something.
Kim:So where are you now?I am actually comparing Singapore based GP/A&E and I-SOS.
Dear all thanks for informative inputs on this blog….I will appreciate your feedbacks on my queries
I recently got MRCPCH (UK) & exploring option of Sg.
1.How to start to get in?Means I need to get job firrst by applying or get registered first ?
2.How much will I get & what will be designation?
3.spouse is dentist is there any scope for her?
isos – i am currently working outside singapore.
if u are based in the isos hq in sgp, you may be getting a comparable wage as what you are doing as a locum dr (sgp based)
but if u are going to be based in the beijing office, make sure that they offer you the relocation/accomodation allowances.
salary wis, why don’t you apply and do a comparison.
am not sure if ISOS has establisedh a shanghai office right now, but the rent there is not cheap and make sure that u do have a generous accomodation allowance for shanghai based jobs.
career prospect is very subjective lah. depends on what you are after. ;).
Haha, I think I know which kiam group you were hinting. Singapore company is like that, choose the wrong group and you will regret. Squeeze you and work you.
Thanks for the auspicious writeup. It actually used to be a enjoyment account it. Look complicated to more added agreeable from you! By the way, how can we communicate?
I’ve resolved to change my current osCommerce shopping cart to Magento. But the procedure itself seems rather scary. How long does it take? Cause I don’t wanna stop the work of my online store for a long time.
Wow.. Hi there Jeff / Starwars / Ortho Surgeon . Fancy seeing your big name, job title and long list of clinics pasted here for the rest of us mere mortals who did not go the med school and/or marry a medical wife to envy. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. It has been a long time since you were just a boy in secondary school comparing the length of one of your important organs in school with the rest of us! If I had to guess back then, I would have hazarded a guess that your specialty was urology instead.
Kim: Can I expect the same salary as a resident A&E physician from I-SOS based in sg?
hi maryland!!
hows life? u can email me directly
and maybe we can catch up some time? i am going for the OBA. maybe we can meet then if you are?
i am opening yet another new clinic at the new parkway hospital. starts on the 1st july 2012. i am also employing more ortho surgeons to join me!
urology wasnt for me!! maybe O and G? hahaha. but once you do ortho, sure to get hooked on it!! way too many toys and fun equipment to work and play with !!
orthopaedics is way too addictive!!! once you start on that path down the DARK side in doing ortho, there is NO turning back!!
i almost became a cardiac surgeon. but ortho is truly my calling!!
been a fun ride !
drop me an email and we can catch up!!
take care
[email protected]
starwars
what is the average annual pay of a typical newly qualified orthopedic surgeon in a group practice (1-2 years out in private practice)?
that is after factoring in the cut from management (the ortho specialist will be an employee/contractor/associate of a group practice)?
with newly exited orthopods: is S$500k-600k annually (after cut from management) too little or it will be more than that?
could starwars comment on this?
i heard that the newly exited paediatricians in private practice will be lucky to fetch ?S$400k (per annum – after cut from management), given that it is amount of private work is shrinking in the paeds field. the lucky ones who manage to get early access to the expatriate market (a niche market)are laughing their way to the bank, but then with the constant production of new pool of paeds specialists is making life for competitive, esp for those HDB based paeds practices.
hi
sorry. i wont comment on open forums about what i pay my guys.
too sensitive. hope you understand.
starwars