The following is the 'How to':
1) Make sure your medical degree is recognized by the Singapore Medical Council. You can check it here.
2) Print out the application form and send it to
Director,
Clinical Manpower Division
MOH Holdings Pte Ltd
1 Maritime Square #11-25
HarbourFront Centre
Singapore 099253
3) Wait for them to contact you. It takes 1 months for me. If you are kancheong, you can call them up and follow up. I applied from India, and hence, they hook me up with a recruitment agency in India, Global Placement Centre. Mrs Geetha from GPC called me up and fixed a date for interview. They will intimate you what document is required. Bring the photocopy copy along with the originals.
4) The interview in 2013 was in Chennai, The Taj Club House. Arrived there at 7:30am in suit, tie, shoes. It is pretty straight forward, filling up forms and choose which specialty you are interested. I choose Internal Medicine
5) Few minutes later they called you in, there are 2 interviewer and one of them is a doctor. All questions were medical related. The doctor asked me on Diabetic Ketoacidosis, ECG (only limb lead one) which shows inferior wall MI and management related to that and complication to look out for inferior wall MI. Clopidogrel and Aspirin vs Aspirin alone. They asked the anatomy and vasculature of the heart. Internship experience in CMC really helpful in answering all these questions. Thank God, the 1 week CME on Diabetic by CMC Endocrine Dept by Dr Nihal Thomas helped me to somewhat impressed the interviewer. I must say I really enjoyed the interview because the doctor interviewer actually teaches me. I went home that day and read so much cardiology which made so sense after the interview.
6) They will let you know if you passed the interview immediately. Many passed, few were unsuccessful.
7) Then those successful, stayed back, and there was a brief lecture which promotes Singapore, working there and its benefit. Low tax, low crime, high pay, good postgraduation training and career track.
8) Offer letter comes couple of weeks later. Submit all pertinent documents for Singapore Medical Council registration. We were required to pay SG 1200 for the deposit, employment pass fee and medical registration fee which is all refundable when you work in Singapore.
