Archive of "Undergrads to be taught about Aids", The Straits Times, 21 April 1885

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Undergrads to be taught about Aids

By KONG SOOK CHIN

MEDICAL students will soon be taught about Aids, Professor E. P. C. Tock said yesterday.

As doctors would be asked many questions on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, medical students would have to be made aware of the latest developments in the disease, which rendered the body defenceless against infections.

The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. National University of Singapore, was speaking at a symposium on Training of Our Future Doctors, which was organised by the Singapore Medical Association.

The symposium, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, was part of a four-day SMA Silver Jubilee National Medical Convention. Today is the last day of the convention.

Prof Tock said Aids would be taught under Immunology and Infectious Diseases, two subjects in the five-year medical course.

As there was yet no cure for the disease, students would be taught prevention. This would include patient education and the study of the effects of the Aids-related virus. HTLV-III.

On the training of doctors. Prof Tock said “The optimal end-product < of undergraduate medical education) must be a humanitarian and total doctor equipped with skills to treat more than just the physical illnesses.

“The doctor must learn to see patients not as diseased organs or systems but as individuals living in a complex environment"

More emphasis would be given in the medical syllabus to the handling of psychosocial problems, preventive medicine, primary health care and health care of the aged.

Doctors should also be aw'are of health economics and the legal and social aspects of patient management. Prof Tock said.

=See also=
 * Archive of "Three in S’pore found with Aids-linked virus", The Straits Times, 10 April 1985
 * Archive of "Aids virus: Doctor who 'found it'", The Sunday Times, 14 April 1985
 * Archive of "Aids on ‘must report’ list", The Straits Times, 17 April 1985
 * Archive of "Special lab to do Aids tests soon", The Straits Times, 18 May 1985
 * Archive of "Man with Aids related virus in hospital", The Straits Times, 21 July 1985
 * Archive of "Ministry steps up Aids drive", The Straits Times, 5 September 1985
 * Archive of "S’pore-Stanford research tie-up bid", The Straits Times, 10 October 1985
 * Archive of "Aids: 20,000 cleared", The Straits Times, 29 November 1985
 * Archive of "Screening tests likely to uncover more Aids carriers", The Straits Times, 1 May 1986
 * Archive of "Aids claims first victim here", The Straits Times, 11 April 1987
 * Archive of "Fear of Aids pushes up condom sales", The Straits Times, 19 April 1987
 * Archive of "Govt dental clinics phasing out boiling", The Straits Times, 1 October 1987
 * HIV/AIDS in Singapore's LGBT community
 * Paddy Chew
 * Avin Tan
 * Ajmal Khan
 * Calvin Tan
 * Adrian Tyler

=References=
 * Kong Sook Chin], "Aids on ‘must report’ list", [[The Straits Times, 17 April 1985[].

=Acknowledgements=

This article was archived by Roy Tan.