Education and training in family medicine: looking ahead

Cheong PY
Correspondence: A/Prof Cheong Pak Yean, pakyean@gmail.com

SUMMARY
The paper by Goh and Ong⁽¹⁾ offers us an opportunity to consider the healthcare landscape of Singapore from a fresh perspective, unbounded by existing constraints of established organisation, and to integrate some of the new perspectives into a rapidly changing context.

Singapore Med J 2014; 55(3): 124-125; http://dx.doi.org/10.11622/smedj.2014028

http://smj.org.sg/sites/default/files/5503/5503co1.pdf

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