Family Medicine Posting: Student Dashboard

Tampines Family Medicine Clinic · NUS Phase III GP/FP Clinical Posting · AY2026/27

Welcome to your GP/FP posting at TFMC

Over this three-week attachment you will sit alongside a practising family physician and see primary care as it really works: the breadth of undifferentiated problems that walk through the door, how chronic disease is managed over time, and how the GP holds continuity for patients and families.

Your tutor is Dr Aziz Noordin. Ask questions freely, take the hot seat when offered, and tell us early if there is something specific you want to see or a procedure you still need to log.

What to expect each day

  • Observing and, as you settle in, taking the hot seat under supervision.
  • Short case discussions between patients to unpack the reasoning.
  • A focused topic or skill most days, tied to what you saw in clinic.
  • An end-of-workday debrief.

Using this dashboard

  1. Curriculum: what the posting covers and the must-know GP topics.
  2. Requirements: your compulsory items, deadlines, attendance, and how the Mini-CEX works. Read this early.
  3. Learning Objectives: rate yourself at the start, midpoint, and end; note your evidence; bring it to your debrief.

Clinic address, hours, and dress code (white coat and name tag) are confirmed in your joining email.

Posting curriculum

Family medicine provides whole-person, longitudinal care for persons and families in the community. This GP/FP placement is built on the NUS Phase III Family Medicine posting, delivered mainly through supervised clinical contact.

GP/FP placement objectives

By the end of the placement you should be able to:

  • Describe the practice profile of the clinic.
  • Apply clinical diagnostic and management reasoning (PROMPT, RAPRIOP) when seeing patients.
  • Appreciate the components of a consultation: the therapeutic relationship, communication and counselling skills, and the patient's hidden agenda.
  • Observe procedures: indications, contraindications, complications, landmarking, technique, and post-procedure advice.
  • Appreciate the clinic's resources and the healthcare system it sits within.
  • Explain the principles of the payment schemes available to patients.

How the weeks build

Week 1

Orient and observe

  • Practice profile and clinic flow
  • The consultation and the doctor-patient relationship
  • Start logging procedures
Week 2

Take the hot seat

  • Diagnostic reasoning (PROMPT, RAPRIOP)
  • Must-know symptoms and conditions
  • Supervised hot-seat practice
Week 3

Consolidate and assess

  • Chronic-disease hot seats
  • Final Mini-CEX
  • Reflection and debrief

Aim for your Mini-CEX after you have had supervised hot-seat practice, usually the second half of the posting.

Must-know presenting symptoms (GP/FP)

HeadacheCoughFever GiddinessUrinary symptomsAbdominal pain & diarrhoea

Must-know conditions (GP/FP)

Acute Respiratory IllnessUTI (urinalysis)Full Blood Count (anaemia, dengue) Overweight / Obesity (BMI)Mood disorderRash (urticaria, eczema, infections)

These scope the GP placement and are not exhaustive; see the Core Topics annex in the Posting Guide for the full MOH list.

Recommended reading

  • MOH ACE Clinical Guidances relevant to the must-know conditions.
  • A consultation model (for example Calgary-Cambridge) and the RAPRIOP management framework.
  • Procedural skills resources on Elentra (BMI, vital signs and BP, IM injection).

Compulsory procedures (GP/FP)

Log these on Elentra after you perform or observe them. Logging is what completes the posting.

ProcedureTask
BMI measurement (adult)Perform
Vital signs: BP and heart rate (adult)Perform
Intramuscular (IM) injectionObserve

The other compulsory procedures (MDI/nebulisation, developmental assessment, childhood immunisation) are logged in your polyclinic placement.

Mini-CEX

You complete one Final Mini-CEX in this GP/FP clinic (and one in your polyclinic placement). Each is worth 14% of the posting. Get supervised hot-seat practice first; you need at least 3 hot-seat sessions this posting.

What it assesses (scored 1 to 9: 1 below, 5 meets, 9 above expectation)

  1. History-taking
  2. Physical examination
  3. Clinical assessment and reasoning
  4. Clinical decision-making (investigations, management)
  5. Communication
  6. Professionalism
  7. Organisation and efficiency

Attendance and professionalism

  • Check in and out via BLUE for every AM and PM session; your tutor gives the session identifier.
  • Clinical posting allows a maximum of 5 days of absence. Submit an approved absence application with valid documents; notify your tutor and admin at least a week ahead for planned leave.
  • One Professionalism Form is completed per placement.
  • Attire: white coat and name tag; be punctual.

Key deadlines

Log all FM compulsory procedures on ElentraFri 31 Jul 2026, 23:59
Final Mini-CEX and Professionalism Form (GP/FP)By end of placement
FM Project submissionThu 6 Aug 2026, 22:00
EOPT MCQ / OSCE / review3, 5, 7 Aug 2026

Admin: Ms Stephy Quah (mdcv636@nus.edu.sg) and Ms Ragha (raghavi.k@nus.edu.sg). Posting Director: Dr Julio Tan.

Your learning objectives

These are the NUS FM posting learning outcomes. This is self-assessment, not graded, and nothing you type leaves this browser. Rate yourself at the start, midpoint, and end, and note the evidence behind each rating.

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