I started medical school just four years after the quota on female medical students at NUS was lifted. I'm not sure if the millennial generation remembers this, but female medical students used to be capped at one-third of the cohort between 1979 to 2000, due to the higher rate of attrition of female doctors from the workforce. Singapore is run in a pragmatic way and MOH explains that this quota was lifted when the gap in attrition rates between males and females decreased and the medical student intake increased. At my medical school interview, I encountered the not-unexpected question, "What if you have children?" I had given this some thought and replied, "I'll probably continue working even if I have to go part-time". This seems to have been good enough for the interview panel because I passed.
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