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REACH (Research for Emerging Academic Clinicians in Healthcare)

REACH (Research for Emerging Academic Clinicians in Healthcare)


Message from Prof Lim Shih Hui, Senior Associate Dean, Appointments and Development Department


Dear Clinician Faculty

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is an important life-long learning journey during our 30-40 years of clinical practice.

As you are practicing in SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, you shall take this opportunity to make yourself more academic.  In addition to being proficient and an expert in your own specialty / subspecialty through your specialty-specific CPD, you could learn and excel in other academic domains such as Education, Research, Innovation, Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, and/or Leadership.

Research is a domain that all of us need to know and be good in it, even though we might not take the path of a clinician investigator or clinician scientist.  Evidence-base medicine practice is one of the most important reasons for us to be familiar with research and its application.

In order for our school to give you the most appropriate academic title and timely promotion in your academic career, quality and quantity of publications would be important.  As such, the Clinician Investigator Development Programme (CIVDP) are catered for many clinicians to learn the language, methodologies and application of research, relevant to your clinical practices.

I wish to see many of your eventually be a Master Academic Clinician (MAC) and a role model for our junior clinician to follow. 

All the Best!


Professor Lim Shih Hui
Senior Associate Dean
Appointments and Development Department
Office of Academic Medicine


Past REACH Seminars


Date Topic Speakers
6-Jun-23  Grants Landscape & Support Programs Dr John Coe
Katheryn Maung
1-Nov-22
2-Nov-22		 Scientific Writing Workshop Ms Ravinuthula Sruthi Jagannathan
6-Sep-22 Introduction to CQM & Statistical Support Available Professor Roger Daniel Vaughan
12-Jul-22  Advancing Health and Well-Being in Asia and Beyond with Global Health Institute  Clinical Associate Professor Tan Hiang Khoon Professor Pronyk Paul Michael
Professor Pierce Chow
Clinical Assistant Professor Irene Teo
Assistant Professor Amos Loh
Associate Professor Tamara Fitzgerald
31-May-22 Sharing of Personal Research Journeys by Duke-NUS Master Academic Clinicians  Clinical Professor Christopher Cheng
Professor Julian Thumboo
Associate Professor Ong Biauw Chi
8-Feb-22 What are Clinical Trials and What do Clinical Trialists Do?  Professor Low Guek Hong, Jenny
Clinical Associate Professor Koh Siyue, Mariko 
Clinical Associate Professor Goh Boon Bee, George
Ms Wang Jin
28-Sep-21 HSR & Training Opportunities Professor Marcus Ong
Professor Nicholas Graves
Assistant Professor Sean Lam
27-Jul-21 All you need to know about Reviews Professor Loh Xian Jun
Professor Aung Tin
Assistant Professor Tham Yih Chung
25-May-21   Getting Research papers published Associate Professor Seet Chee Seong, Raymond
Clinical Professor Ang Tiing Leong
Associate Professor Lai Siang Hui
9-Mar-21 Gearing up for Research Clinical Associate Professor Yeo Khung Keong
Clinical Associate Professor Tan Chew Seng, Louis
Clinical Associate Professor Ho Sun Sien, Henry
9-Dec-20 Ways to Facilitate your Research Career Associate Professor Chuah Tuan Heng, Charles
Associate Professor Sng Ban Leong
Enny Kiesworo
Dr Ng Heok Hee
2-Dec-20 Tips when starting out in Research Prof Wong Tien Yin
Associate Professor Chow Wan Cheng
Associate Professor Deidre Anne De Silva
Professor Lim Shih Hui

6 June 2023, CCSD Research Masterclass Webinar x REACH: Grants Landscape & Support Programs 
This event is jointly organised by the Duke-NUS Appointments & Development Department (ADD) under the Clinician Investigator Development Programme’s (CIVDP) Research for Emerging Academic Clinicians in Healthcare (REACH) Seminar Series and the Centre for Clinician-Scientist+ Development (CCS+D) under the Research Masterclass Webinar series.

We have invited Dr John Coe, Director from SingHealth Office of Research and Ms Katheryn Maung, Deputy Director of the Academic Programmes Management Department in Duke-NUS Medical school to share on Grants Landscape & Support Programs. They provided insights about the internal and external grants for clinician-researchers at various levels of experience, as well as the programs available to support emerging clinician-researchers in their research journey. 



1 & 2 November 2022, Scientific Writing Workshop
Scientific research, as significant as it may be, becomes meaningful only when clearly communicated to the audience of interest. We are delighted to learn from Ms Sruthi on how to enhance ourscience communication skills, specially focusing on how to put together a well-structured and clearly-articulated manuscript and proposal draft.

Session 1_Nov 2022
Session 2_Nov 2022

6 September 2022, Introduction to CQM & Statistical Support Available
10th REACH Seminar, we have invited Professor Roger, Director of the Centre for Quantitative Medicine (CQM) to share more about CQM and the Statistical Support they have for you.


12 July 2022, Advancing Health and Well-Being in Asia and Beyond with Global Health Institute 
9th REACH Seminar, learn more about the opportunities and challenges at SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute (SDGHI), Centre for Outbreak Preparedness and global health projects on the Asia-Pacific Hepatocellular Carcinoma (AHCC) trials, psychological outcome of healthcare workers in Asia, and frugal innovation efforts to increase access to surgery through capacity building and medical device design.



31 May 2022, Sharing of Personal Research Journeys by Duke-NUS Master Academic Clinicians
8th REACH Seminar, sharing by Duke-NUS Master Academic Clinicians – Clinical Professor Christopher Cheng, Professor Julian Thumboo and Associate Professor Ong Biauw Chi, on their personal stories and experiences in developing their research careers.



8 February 2022, What are Clinical Trials and What do Clinical Trialists Do?
7th REACH Seminar, we have invited distinguished speakers to help us learn more about clinical trials and why we need them.



28 September 2021, HSR & Training Opportunities
6th REACH Seminar, for this edition, we have invited distinguished speakers to share about the Health Service Research (HSR) & Training Opportunities.



27 July 2021, All you need to know about Reviews
5th REACH Seminar, for this edition, we have invited distinguished speakers to share on the topic of reviews.



25 May 2021, Getting your Research Work
4th REACH Seminar, for this edition, editors from the 3 local journals will share tips on getting your manuscript published.



9 March 2021, Gearing up for Research
3rd REACH Seminar, this edition was designed based on the feedback of topics we gathered which many were keen to hear more -getting started, hearing from personal experiences from established researchers and time management.



9 December 2020, Ways to Facilitate your Research Career

2 December 2020, Tips When Starting Out in Research

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Please contact us at civdp@duke-nus.edu.sg if you have any questions or suggestions related to Clinician Investigator.