南洋理工大学和伦敦帝国学院联办的李光前医学院明年8月开课，报读的学生得要过关斩将，争夺仅50个学额。 李光前医学院将从今年12月至明年4月，开放给学生报名。南大和帝国学院昨天联合发文告，公布医学院的报名程序。要报读的学生，除了提交A水准或理工学院成绩、个人文章、课程辅助活动表现等资料，也必须参加英国生物医学大学入学考试（BioMedical Admissions Test，简称BMAT），以及在一天内通过八轮的“迷你面试”。
优异学术成绩之外需有关怀怜悯之心 李光前医学院院长史密斯教授（Stephen Smith）说，每年报读医科的学生中不乏所有科目考获特优的学生，不过医学院除了要求学生有优异的学术成绩，还要他们有关怀怜悯之心，并且计划在本地这个老龄化人口的社会，把医学当作长期事业。 李光前医学院的部分报名程序，同新加坡国立大学杨潞龄医学院医学学士学位课程一样。不过，杨潞龄医学院的报名程序只包括两轮面试，而李光前医学院要求报名学生参加BMAT，还有通过八轮面试。 由英国剑桥大学考试委员会（Cambridge Assessment）主办的BMAT，是一项报读英国顶尖大学如帝国学院、剑桥大学、牛津大学等医学院的学生，都必须参加的考试。研究证实，这项考试能很好地预测将来学生在医学院的表现。两个小时的考试，包括了解题、数据分析、推理、科学知识与应用和写作等题目。 有意报名的李光前医学院学生，必须参加在11月7日举行的今年唯一一场BMAT考试。目前本地只有一个考试地点，不过医学院透露，当局已安排增加多三个考场以应付将报读医学院的大批学生。 八轮“迷你面试” 不同医疗专人主持 院方说，学生申报大学成绩和BMAT成绩皆必须非常优异，才有望进入下一关，那就是八轮的迷你面试。 八轮的“迷你面试”将由不同医疗专业人士主持，包括医学院教员、本地医院医生、综合医疗保健人员等，学生必须在一天内通过每个约5分钟的迷你面试。 这项面试是院方在参考一些加拿大和美国医学院的做法后，特别为李光前医学院设计的。院方预计，最终能进入这关的学生只有约150人。 李光前医学院高级副院长帕特里奇教授（Martyn Partridge）指出：“医科是一项吃力的课程，需要消化大量的资料。在学术、BMAT和多轮迷你面试方面有杰出表现的学生，将最有能力应付课程的严格要求。最终，我们要做的是为李光前医学院挑选最佳的学生，让新加坡人将来有最好的医生来照顾他们。” 立志成为医生的淡马锡初级学院二年级学生沈佳萦（17岁）打算明年报读国大和南大医学院。她告诉记者，由于今年BMAT的日期跟A水准考试同样是在11月举行，她担心两个考试撞期。 沈佳萦认为，BMAT大部分的考试项目都应付得来，只有考科学知识的部分需要预先准备，不过由于她目前修读化学和生物科，因此这个问题不大。接下来，她打算购买一本准备BMAT的工具书和整理个人履历表，以及申请到医院实习。 正在服兵役的林正杰（19岁）上星期六刚出席南大开放日活动，以了解李光前医学院的课程和入学标准。他在去年A水准会考中考获四科特优，对于李光前医学院不仅看成绩来录取学生的做法，他十分赞同，也备受鼓舞。 他说：“李光前医学院要培养的是愿意为社区服务、关怀他人的好医生。我也认同医生不单要有高智力，而要用爱心去照顾病人，体恤病人和他们的家属。”
只有50个名额。。。
抢手呀！！
读医科的孩子真不容易！
入门难、读得苦，
工作责任大、压力也大
投资与回报期限长
真不容易啊。
很好的孩子！这么小就知道自己要什么了！
潜规则：家里有人是当医生
所以，，，，
我叫我儿子将来读大学报读医科。我儿子说他没有学生物,叫我死了这份心。
太难了。。。
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我儿子不是当医生的料；女儿适合当医生，但她这个学习。。。烦啊。。。
一位本地医生在他的博客里写了这样一篇文章：
Daddy’s advice to parents who like their children to study medicine
As a doctor, I often get asked by relatives, friends, non-medical colleagues and other people he met on what needs to be done to get their child into medical school.
This post is not about how to get into medical school. I will talk about that in another blog post. This post is about whether your child should be embarking on a career in medicine if he is qualified for medical school.
Medicine and Law are always seen as prestigious professions which most parents hope their children would take up when they grow up. I am not qualified to discuss about law as a career but I am happy to share my opinion on medicine as I have been a doctor for more than 15 years, and still counting.
When a parent ask my opinion on whether his or her child should study medicine if the child qualifies for a medical school position, I would normally ask the parent and the child the following question:
1. Do you have the passion to help the unfortunate? When I mean help, its not just giving a $2 donation in the shopping mall for flag day. What I mean is whether the child is willing to sacrifice his or her social life, family life and personal life to work on weekends, nights and public holidays in the hospitals to help the unfortunate. Without this type of passion and commitment, they would be very miserable and disappointed during their early parts of working life due to the long hours of work.
Some of them thinks that maybe this type of “suffering” is only for short term, after a few years, when they finish their training, they would go out and start their own clinic and do not need to do these long hours any more. This is not true as many of us who are already in our mid career are still clocking long hours. I still work on some weekends and public holidays in the hospitals as these are the period where the hospitals are in need of doctors.
2. Are you able to afford the financial cost of the university fees? If you invest your child in his medical school education, you will realise that the return on your “investment” is pathetic, and often you actually suffer a financial loss if your child goes to medical school. The average cost of sending a child to study medicine outside Singapore (eg in UK, Australia or USA) is around half a million Singapore dollars today. These include university fees and lodging, food etc. for the child. If your child is lucky enough to enter one of the local university in Singapore, the cost will be lower, but still higher than other courses. If you have spend half a million dollars (which is enough to buy a small condominium) in your child’s education, not likely that you will be able to collect your “investment” back in the form of financial return due to the relatively low salary of junior doctors.
This post is not to discourage parents from persuading their child to take up medicine. This post is about providing a reality check to parents who do not understand the sacrifices required to be a doctor. If your child is passionate and genuinely loves to help the unfortunate and you can afford the education, then you should encourage your child to take up medicine.
Ah, one more thing, your child must not be scared of BLOOD ! That is another criteria which your child needs to fulfill before he takes up the place for medical school.
这位医生爸爸还写了这篇：
Daddy’s advice on how to get a place in medical school
This is a follow-up article on the earlier article below on whether your child should study medicine or not.
Now that you have decided your child has the passion to be a doctor and you are able to afford his university fees, the next challenge is how to get into the medical school.
There are very limited places for students who are interested to study medicine in Singapore. At the moment, there are only 2 universities which enrol students to study medicine in Singaore, which are Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical school. Together, both of them takes in around 300+ students a year.
Thus there are very limited positions which are available locally. Of course you can try overseas universities but the cost are much higher.
To get into medical school, your child needs to have good academic grades and good attitude and demonstrate passion to be a doctor. For academic grades, you need not have straight As, as I have seen many of them with one or more subjects having B grades. But it is important to have good results as the academic study for medicine is fairly tough. If your academic foundation is not strong, you may not be able to survive in medical school.
There are one or more interviews for your child to go through after being shortlisted based on his academic results. Many parents have ask me what the interviewers ask during these interviews and my answer is “Anything under the sun”. Yes, seriously, the interviewers can ask your child anything, based on what his interest are, his previous CCAs in the school, his hobbies, his families etc.
What the interviewers are interested is mainly to assess if the person is suitable to be a doctor. A doctor is expected to work very long hours, have compassion to help the unfortunate and have a good and rational thinking. These are some of the criteria the interviewers will try to elicit from the candidates. My advice to parents whose children are going for these interviews are:
1. Be genuine. Do not tell lies as the interviewers (especially those senior doctors) are good at picking up whether the person is telling a lie or not. As doctors, we encounter patients everyday and we have developed the skills to pick up inconsistency in people’s behaviour, especially if they are lying.
2. Be passionate about what you want to do. If you want to be a doctor to help people, please say so. But do not try to over exaggerate your passion. If you want to be a doctor to develop a new type of treatment to help a particular group of patient, please say so. The interviewers are looking for passionate people to be doctors.
3. Good communication skills. This is very important for a doctor. Your child should learn to maintain eye contact with the interviewers, speak in clear and confident sentences, greet the interviewers and thank them after the interview. It is very important for doctors to have soft skills as they are required to be able to communicate well to their patients.
4. Answer rationally. If you do not know the answer of a question they pose to you, say you do not know. If you know the answer, try to answer it in a logical manner and not confusing to the listener. It is important for a doctor to think rationally in his job, like how to make a diagnosis and treat a patients and not to have their thinking all jumbled up.
Some students have actually done some voluntary work during their school days with the hope that their chances of getting into medical schools are higher. My opinion is it is good for the child to do voluntary work, but please do it because you like to volunteer and not to do it as an ulterior motive to get into medical school. This is because you need to be genuinely like to help people, otherwise you will be very miserable as a doctor in the future because you may not like the sacrifices you need to do to help people as a doctor.
还有这篇：
Aptitude tests and mini interviews for potential medical students
Daddy says:
In today’s newspaper, there is an interesting article that for the enrolment of medical students in the new NTU Medical School next year, all short listed candidates are required to pass an aptitude tests and 8 mini interviews. I know of many parents who are grumbling “Is it really necessary?”
For those of you who have followed our blog, you can read our two earlier posting on this topic :
1. How to get a place in medical school
http://parenting-talk.blogspot.com/2008/12/daddys-advice-on-how-to-get-place-in.html
2. Advice to parents who are keen to encourage their children to study medicine
http://parenting-talk.blogspot.com/2008/12/daddys-advice-to-parents-who-like-their.html
Today’s blog post here is to add on what I have commented earlier. As a senior doctor who have worked for almost 20 years and also an adjunct lecturer teaching medical students in NUS and Duke-NUS medical school, I hope to share my opinion here.
The aptitude test and the mini interviews are quite important as if its done accurately, it can help to shortlist those who are suitable to be doctors. Do not despair if you do not pass the aptitude test, as you will be thankful later on in your life, realising that being a doctor is really not what you like to do based on your interest and personality.
What are the characteristics of a doctor? I think the easier way to ask this question is, “Imagine you are a patient, what do you expect of your doctor?”. I am sure some of these characteristics will be what you expect from your doctor:
Willing to sacrifice his time to treat you when you are sick. He should not take long holidays (if he does, he should have arranged his colleague who is as good as him to take over)
Willing to work long hours, as you may fall sick middle of the night
Good communication skills, willing to listen to all your complaints (even though it will take a lot of his busy time) and then explain clearly to you your condition and how he will treat your illness
Experienced. That means long training hours and treated many patients
Compassionate. Able to emphatise with you, not only your illness but also your other social and family problems which affect the recovery of your illness.
Not money minded. If he is in private practice, he should not charge high fees, preferably even provide free treatment for those who cannot afford it.
Willing to sacrifice for the patients. For example, if you have a highly infectious disease like SARS or AIDS, your doctor should not be scared to come near you and treat you.
Now, after you look at this list of expectations from the patients’ point of view, put yourself in the doctor’s position, if you think you are able to deliver these expectations and yet be happy and contented of your life, yes, you have the aptitude to be a doctor.
Some parents ask me, “Is there any training required for your child during his school days so that his chances of getting into medical school is higher?” Generally, I will say that if they have the opportunity to hold leadership position in school like being the school prefect and class monitor, captian of their sports etc, they stand a higher chance as these leadership skills teaches them to handle the interviews better, as they are more mature and confident than the other students. In fact, sometimes students who comes from neighbourhood schools in their Primary school does better than those from “elite” primary school as they have more opportunities to hold these leadership position due to lack of competition from their schoolmates (students from “elite” primary schools have lesser opportunites for these leadership position in their schools as their classmates are as good or better than them). These leadership skills learnt during their school days will be an advantage during the aptitude tests and interviews. Another area to prepare is to participate in community service like “Red Cross”, “St John Ambulance”, “Boys Brigade” etc as these CCAs expose the children to community services which will teach them to understand how to be compassionate to the less fortunate.
I believe that it is important to get the right people to study medicine, otherwise when we are old, we don’t have good doctors to look after us.
News article from Today online 13 Mar 2012