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Nuclear medicine usage on the rise in Singapore

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SINGAPORE: Nuclear medicine is increasingly being used since it was first introduced in Singapore one and a half years ago.

Commonly used in tandem with advanced scanning techniques like the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan at many hospitals here, nuclear medicine relies on the use of radioactive elements in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

There are currently 10 types of nuclear medicine worldwide with 50 new types under development.Raffles Hospital aims to use new types of nuclear medicine to diagnose diseases like heart diseases.

At Raffles Hospital, each scan costs S$2,000. Patients can use their Medisave to pay for the scans and can claim up to S$600 each year.

Doctors at the hospital have seen a 40 per cent increase in the number of patients who are treated using nuclear medicine and these doctors say using nuclear medicine is 80 per cent more accurate than traditional biopsies.

"We are able to delve into the molecular nature so that means we are able to pick up as small as 0.4, 0.5 cm in detecting cancer at an earlier stage as compared to other type of imaging scans," said Dr Andrew Tan, a specialist on nuclear medicine at Raffles Hospital.

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SINGAPORE: Nuclear medicine is increasingly being used since it was first introduced in Singapore one and a half years ago. It relies on the use of radioactive elements in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and is commonly used in tandem with advanced scanning techniques such as the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or CT scan at many hospitals in the country.

Doctors at Raffles Hospital have seen a 40 per cent increase in the number of patients treated using nuclear medicine. These doctors added that using nuclear medicine is 80 per cent more accurate than traditional biopsies.

Dr Andrew Tan, a nuclear medicine specialist at Raffles Hospital, said: "With this type of scan, we are able to delve into molecular structure, so that means we are able to detect tumours as small as 0.4 or 0.5 centimetres and diagnose cancer at an earlier stage as compared to other types of imaging scans."

At Raffles Hospital, each scan costs S$2,000. Patients can use their Medisave accounts to pay for the scans, claiming up to S$600 each year.

There are currently 10 types of nuclear medicine worldwide, and 50 new types are under development. Raffles Hospital aims to use new types of nuclear medicine to diagnose diseases such as heart diseases.

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Why We Can’t Fix Our Healthcare System | Ayesha Khalid | TEDxBeaconStreet – Video

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Help for med students

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Dec. 20, 2014, midnight

PROSPECTIVE medical students are set to benefit from a new partnership between the Rotary Club of Albury-Hume and the University of NSW Rural Medical School.

Peter Lee and Rotary Club of Albury-Hume president elect Gordon Shaw discuss the Dr John McDonald medical scholarship, which is now open for applications. Picture: KYLIE ESLER

PROSPECTIVE medical students are set to benefit from a new partnership between the Rotary Club of Albury-Hume and the University of NSW Rural Medical School.

The partners have created an annual medical scholarship which is now open to applications.

The club will facilitate seminars in partnership with the medical school for school students in years 9 to 12 who are interested in exploring a medical career, including insights into academic pathways to gain entry to university through to taking up medical practice.

Representatives from university will speak about a career in medicine, providing details of study requirements and training.

Scholarship co-ordinator Peter Lee said students would receive a much wider grounding in which university subjects would be required for their study.

We are also looking to have speakers from allied health areas speak about careers in areas such as nursing, paramedics and physiotherapy.

Prospective medical students will be invited to the UNSW medical open day in April.

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Medical students in Singapore face shortage of cadavers – a crucial learning tool

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SINGAPORE: Cadavers are a crucial learning tool for medical students, but for medical students in Singapore, there are not enough of them to go around.

Prof Bay Boon Huat, head of the anatomy department at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, said: "In 2000, we received 28 cadavers from the Health Sciences Authority. This dropped to eight cadavers in 2010." This year,the school only received six.

Cadavers can be obtained in several ways - some are unclaimed bodies, some are donations made by next-of-kin, and some people also pledge to donate their bodies for scientific research.

"We started the human body donation programme in 2012, facilitated by the National Organ Transplant Unit," said Prof Bay.Donated bodies received so far include that of Dr Tan Chee Beng, the former chief executive officer of SingHealth Polyclinics.

Mr Benjamin Tan, the son of Dr Tan and a second-year medical student at NUS, shared more about his father's decision to donate his body: "He was already dying of prostate cancer. It was already in the terminal stages, so I was just sharing with him causally about what's going on in our medical school. And he jokingly questioned why the medical school would want his body, because it is so damaged."

Before taking practical classes that use cadavers, students have to take the Anatomy Student's Oath to emphasise the importance of approaching these cadavers or 'silent mentors' as they are fondly referred to, with the dignity and respect they deserve. "Although the silent mentors have lost the ability to speak, they use their bodies to teach the intricacies of human anatomy," said Prof Bay.

Mr Tan also spoke of the importance of cadavers to medical students: "Being able to go down and actually examine a real, what you call 'silent mentor', it's actually a very special and important thing... It's really hard to put something that is three-dimensional into a textbook that is just 2D. It really helps us in developing our anatomical knowledge, understanding things like variations because every person is different."

The shortage of cadavers means medical schools have to find ways to maximise the precious resource. Since 2003, NUS has done away with the dissection of cadavers by first-year students. Instead, the cadavers are dissected by prosectors - staff who work on cadavers. This is to ensure the bodies are preserved in the best shape and structure so students can scrutinise various organs and tissues during practical sessions. After about three years, the body will be cremated and returned to the family.

Nanyang Technological University's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine has pioneered the use of plastinated bodies for the education of their medical students. Plastinated bodies are real human bodies where the water and fat have been replaced by plastics - to produce specimens that can be touched and do not smell nor decay.

Assistant Professor Dinesh Srinivasan, the lead for anatomy and head of examinations at NTU's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, said: "Plastination allows students to have hands-on experience many times without exposure to chemicals such as formalin... There's room for them to grow eventually when they are attached to hospitals in later years."

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Med students host benefit

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Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch Macos Serrat and wife Maria Serrat try their luck at the craps table as Marshall University's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine holds a Casino Night on Friday, Dec. 19, 2014, in the Don Morris Room of the Memorial Student Center in Huntington.

Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch Joe DeLapa and Destiny Day set down for a game of Black Jack as Marshall University's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine holds a Casino Night on Friday, Dec. 19, 2014, in the Don Morris Room of the Memorial Student Center in Huntington.

Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch Marshall University's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine holds a Casino Night on Friday, Dec. 19, 2014, in the Don Morris Room of the Memorial Student Center in Huntington.

Dec. 20, 2014 @ 12:01 AM

HUNTINGTON Going to medical school can be very expensive, with some students graduating hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

"They say the average medical student graduates with somewhere up to $200,000 worth of debt," said Steven Nakano, a fourth-year student in the Marshall University School of Medicine. "There are kids who have $500,000 worth of debt and it's just outrageous."

That's why Nakano and others in the Class of 2015 following the lead of classes before them are working to raise money for a scholarship that will help ease the burden for future students.

On Friday, the medical school hosted its inaugural Casino Night in the Don Morris Room at the Memorial Student Center in hopes of banking $15,000 for an endowed scholarship.

"For a school to be able to help offset some of that debt I mean, one Casino Night isn't going to erase everyone's but the fact that the school is committed to at least help students start thinking about how to pay it off, it's very important," said Nakano, who acted as a blackjack dealer for the night, which saw the Don Morris Room transformed into a Vegas-style casino where guests could take part in table gaming with "MUSOM Money" for a chance to win several prizes donated to the event.

Shayne Gue, chair of the Class of 2015's fundraising committee, said it's important for graduating students to give back to incoming students considering all the help they themselves have received along the way.

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