The SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre draws on the collective strengths of SingHealth and Duke-NUS Medical School to drive the transformation of healthcare and provide affordable, accessible, quality healthcare to patients. This initiative will guide and promote the future of medicine, tapping on and combining the collective strengths of SingHealth's clinical expertise and Duke-NUS' biomedical sciences research and medical education capabilities.

Co-organiser

West China School of Medicine/West China Hospital, Sichuan University (WCSM/WCH, SCU), founded in 1892, is a renowned national general hospital and an established Centre for the diagnosis and treatment of complex and critical illnesses. It is also a respected medical school in China and a national base for top-tier medical research and technological innovation.

WCH boasts a strong and comprehensive range of medical disciplines and is highly ranked globally as the top 0.5 percent in clinical medicine, according to Essential Science Indicators. The hospital hosts nine national key disciplines, two key cultivation disciplines, and 39 national key clinical specialties, making it the hospital with the most medical disciplines and specialisations in the country. It has also received the highest rating of A++ in the National Performance Evaluation of Public Tertiary Hospitals for five consecutive years and has consistently been ranked second among the best hospitals in China by Fudan University for 14 straight years.

For more information, visit www.wchscu.cn

Secretariat

The SingHealth Academy College of Clinical Nursing (CCN) shapes and drives strategies for clinical nursing training and education initiatives across SingHealth. CCN oversees the development of Undergraduate Nursing Education, Postgraduate Nursing Education, Continuing Nursing Education and Global Nursing.

Besides driving service excellence, the college advocates life-long learning to enhance nurses’ competencies through continuing education to deliver safe patient care. This includes partnering with hospitals and institutions to develop multidisciplinary programmes that value-add to the nurses’ skillsets. The college also emphasises on faculty development, teaching methodology and the entire learning processes from nursing students to nurses who specialise in their chosen fields of service, education or research. CCN seeks to continuously incorporate new and innovative pedagogy to improve clinical knowledge retention and application that lead to better patient care outcomes.

For more information, visit www.singhealthacademy.edu.sg/CCN