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NUS President Prof
Shih shares a moment with GMS Dean Prof Williams at the
groundbreaking ceremony |
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Source: www.nus.edu.sg |
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DUKE - NUS Graduate Medical
School Singapore: A New Phase Begins |
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Medical School will play
significant role in training country¡¯s leading
clinician-scientists with strong capabilities in translational
medicine |
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The Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
Singapore (GMS) has entered a new phase of its development with the
groundbreaking of the site of the school on Outram Campus. |
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Gracing the event as Guest-of-Honour was
Singapore¡¯s Minister for Health Mr Khaw Boon Wan. |
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An innovative collaboration between the Duke
University School of Medicine and the National University of Singapore (NUS),
the GMS has a distinctive research-intensive curriculum that is based on
the Duke model of medical education. |
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It is aimed at producing
physicians-scientists who will bridge the basic sciences and clinical
medicine and spur research vibrancy in Singapore¡¯s biomedical sciences
scene. |
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As Singapore¡¯s second medical school, the
GMS will complement the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine with each
having their own unique focus. |
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While adding diversity to the local
educational landscape, both schools will be an integral part of the
Singapore biomedical community and will produce the doctors and
clinician-scientists that Singapore needs to meet increasing demands for
quality healthcare in the country. |
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The ¡°bench-to-bedside¡± research efforts will
help to develop new treatments and clinical procedures that will benefit
Singaporeans. |
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Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony, the
Chairman of the GMS Governing Board, Mr Tony Chew said: "The GMS campus
will be ready in the summer of 2009 with 23,000 square metres of space
for wet-lab research, classrooms, teaching labs, and administrative
offices. It is planned as a compact site, characterised by an
appreciation of the local context. The architectural consultants for the
project, CPG and Hillier Architects, have drawn inspiration from both
the American and local contexts for the design of the GMS campus.¡± |
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Professor R Sanders Williams, Dean of the
GMS said, ¡°The GMS campus is next to SingHealth's national specialty
centres and the Singapore General Hospital, which is the key
tertiary-care teaching hospital. This physical proximity will facilitate
close synergistic efforts between investigators at GMS and the doctors
and physician-scientists already on the SGH campus. Each will draw on
the other¡¯s strengths, and together will catalyse clinical and
translational medicine research and advance global health through the
cross-fertilisation of ideas and efforts. This will be further enhanced
through existing partnerships with the NUS and the Agency for Science,
Technology and Research (A*Star) and their world-class researchers.¡± He
added, ¡°It will spur biomedical research in Singapore, and move it
several steps closer to being a world-recognised hub.¡± |
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NUS President Professor Shih Choon
Fong said, ¡°This collaboration with Duke University, one of
America¡¯s top medical schools, positions our two universities at
the forefront of a fast-changing global knowledge landscape. The
Duke-NUS GMS and NUS¡¯ Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine possess
complementary and distinctive strengths. This provides for a
synergistic partnership that will further strengthen Singapore¡¯s
standing as a global hub for medical education and research, and
healthcare.¡± |
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Established in April 2005, the GMS is
Singapore¡¯s only tie-up with an American university to start a medical
school. Through its strong signature research programmes, the GMS will
contribute significantly to the Singapore government¡¯s plans to boost
biomedical sciences initiatives in Singapore. |
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The Singapore government has recently
announced that it will be pumping another S$1.44 billion over the next
five years to fund health-care standards and clinical and translational
research capabilities. The Singapore government had earlier committed
some S$3 billion over five years when it first launched the Biomedical
Sciences Initiative in 2000. |
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Source: www.nus.edu.sg
Press Release 1 Sep 2006 |
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