At this year's Singapore Health and Biomedical Congress (SHBC) 2024, NHG and Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore)’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) jointly established a new Academic Health System (AHS). It will focus on translating academic endeavours into real-world outcomes, to better carry out the missions of enhancing patient care, optimising health service delivery, and improving population health.
Having partnered LKCMedicine for a decade, the NHG-LKCMedicine-NTU Singapore AHS is the next step to deepen the engagements and collaborations with the wider NTU community to achieve a tighter integration of healthcare, education, and research to drive better care outcomes for our patients and population. This will allow us to tap on biological sciences, data sciences, engineering, social sciences and business to foster a more holistic approach towards translational research and education.
“The establishment of this first AHS in Singapore will facilitate application of scientific discovery, technological advancement and socio-economic ideas and models to improve delivery of health services for the entire population. Translating knowledge into practice and nurturing young talents in the healthcare profession is our common goal in NHG and LKCMedicine,” adds Prof Joseph Sung, Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, and Senior Vice President (Health & Life Sciences), NTU Singapore.
Prof Benjamin Seet, Group Chairman Medical Board (Research), NHG, shares, “Traditionally, medical education and practice have revolved around the biomedical and clinical sciences. This is no longer adequate today. In the AHS we are setting up, the medical school serves as bridge into the rest of NTU Singapore – we will need to leverage on biological sciences, data sciences, engineering, social sciences and business, to keep up with technology and to train clinicians for tomorrow.”
Under the AHS, Academic Clinical Programmes will be launched progressively over five years from 2024 to 2028, starting with Rehabilitation Medicine and Skin Health. By bringing together a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, scientists and engineers, the Academic Clinical Programmes will enable real-world issues to inspire research, and for evidence-based insights to be effectively brought into policy and practice. This approach has been proven to deliver better clinical outcomes, accelerate adoption of new technologies, and to provide a richer learning environment and experience for future healthcare leaders and professionals.
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2moCongrats Benjamin!