Sleep quality and burnout: A Singapore study.

Introduction: Improved sleep hygiene is postulated to be protective against burnout. Previous studies assessing a potential association between poor sleep quality and burnout showed incongruent results.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between sleep quality and burnout.

Prevalence of burnout among healthcare professionals in Singapore.

Introduction: The aim was to study the prevalence of burnout among various groups of healthcare professionals in Singapore.

Methods: An anonymous online survey questionnaire was conducted using the Maslach Burnout Inventory - Human Services to measure three categories of burnout: emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalisation (DP) and personal accomplishment (PA) from July 2019 to January 2020 in a healthcare cluster in Singapore.

Results: The survey was completed by 6,048 healthcare professionals out of a target survey population of 15,000 (response rate 40.

Nucleoside analog monotherapy for prophylaxis in Hepatitis B liver transplant patients is safe and efficacious.

Background: Combination therapy with HBIG and NAs has reduced HBV recurrence post LT. Despite its efficacy, costs of HBIG remain prohibitive. With high-potency NAs, HBIG's use has been questioned.

Putting Time in Perspective: An Integrated Graduate Medical Education Institutional Dashboard and Report Card.

Background: ACGME-I requires sponsoring institutions (SIs) to have systematic oversight of program performance. This was initially carried out through annual review, however, maintaining compliance became a challenge for a large SI like Singapore Health Services (SingHealth) as the number of residency programs grew from 5 to 34 in 3 years.

Objective: We assessed the impact of quarterly monitoring using a dashboard on graduate medical education (GME) program performance and institutional oversight.

A nationwide, resident-led teaching programme for medical students in Singapore: SingHealth Student Internship Programme Bootcamp.

Introduction: This study aimed to describe the planning, development and evaluation of the success of the first nationwide, resident-led, large-group teaching programme for medical students - the Singapore Health Services Student Internship Programme (SIP) Bootcamp.

Methods: This was an initial feasibility study evaluating a half-day teaching boot camp initiated, developed and conducted by the resident educators. A three-month preparation period was required to set up an education subcommittee, liaise with medical student leaders, recruit resident educators, meet all the stakeholders and conduct the boot camp.

Effectiveness of assertive community management in Singapore.

Introduction: Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) was introduced in the 1970s as a comprehensive and assertive approach to community-based case management of patients with chronic and serious mental illness. Launched in Singapore in 2003, the Assertive Community Management (ACM) was modelled after the ACT, but with the main difference of 24 hour availability for the latter only. In line with the move towards de-institutionalisation of psychiatric patients, ACM was introduced to provide a mobile community-based multidisciplinary team approach to manage patients with severe chronic psychiatric illness.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) in Singapore: a 1-year follow-up study.

Introduction: Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) provides community-based treatment to patients with severe and persistent psychiatric illnesses, so that they may continue to live and function in the community as they receive psychiatric care. This study aimed to examine the effects of ACT on the outcome of patients over a 1-year period in an Asian population.

Materials And Methods: This naturalistic and retrospective cohort study examined the effects of ACT on 100 patients who had completed 1 year of ACT.