Singapore legislation
Section 11
Section 11
Certificate of experience in approved hospital
(1)
A certificate for the purposes of section 10(a) shall not be granted in respect of any person unless after passing a qualifying examination he has been engaged in employment in a resident medical capacity in one or more approved hospitals or approved institutions for such period as may be prescribed or in such other capacity as the university or other corporation empowered to grant a Singapore diploma may approve (referred to in this Act as approved capacity) and for such period as may be prescribed.
(2)
A person satisfying the condition specified in subsection (1) may apply for a certificate under this section to the body granting the qualifying diploma by virtue of which he claims registration, and if that body is satisfied —
that during the time the applicant has been so employed he has been engaged for such period or minimum period as may be prescribed in medicine, and for such period or minimum period as may be prescribed in surgery and for such period or minimum period as may be prescribed in an approved capacity; and
that his service while so employed has been satisfactory,they shall grant, in such form as may be prescribed, a certificate that they are so satisfied.
(3)
Time during which an applicant, while employed as mentioned in subsection (1), has been engaged in midwifery or in such other approved capacity, not exceeding such period as may be prescribed, shall be counted for the purposes of subsection (2)(a) either as time spent in medicine or as time spent in surgery, as the applicant may elect.
(4)
Where during any period of such employment as is referred to in subsection (1) an applicant who has been engaged in medicine has also been engaged in surgery or in midwifery or both or in an approved capacity, or an applicant who has been engaged in surgery has also been engaged in midwifery or in an approved capacity, the period shall be apportioned for the purposes of subsections (1), (2) and (3) in such manner as may be determined by the body granting the qualifying diploma by virtue of which the applicant claims registration.
(5)
In this section —
“approved”, in relation to a hospital or institution, means approved for the time being for the purposes of this section by any university or other corporation empowered to grant a Singapore diploma; and
references to employment in a resident medical capacity shall be construed as references to employment in the practice of medicine, surgery or midwifery, where the person in question is resident in the hospital or institution where he is employed or conveniently near thereto, and is by the terms of his employment required to be so resident.
(6)
In relation to a person claiming registration by virtue of a diploma granted on passing a qualifying examination held by two or more bodies jointly, the references in this section to the body granting the qualifying diploma shall be construed as references to the bodies by whom the qualifying examination was held, acting jointly.
(7)
Subject to subsection (6), a person holding two or more qualifying diplomas shall be treated for the purposes of this section as claiming registration by virtue of such one of those diplomas as he may choose.
(8)
Nothing in this section shall preclude a university, corporation, college or other body empowered to grant a Singapore diploma from approving for the purposes of this section a hospital or institution in a foreign country (referred to in this Act as approved foreign institution) and granting a certificate for the purpose of section 10(a) to the holder of a Singapore diploma provided that such holder satisfies that university, corporation, college or other body that —
he has served in that approved foreign institution in a resident medical capacity for a period that is equivalent to the period prescribed under subsection (2)(a); and
he has performed and completed such service to the satisfaction of the competent authority or authorities controlling such approved foreign institution.