1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
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This hybrid session is open to doctors and healthcare professionals only. 1 CME point will be awarded.
The recent Singapore Medical Council disciplinary decision in SMC v Dr. Lim Geok Leong [2026] for failure to refer a diabetic foot patient has unsettled the local GP community — for reasons worth examining publicly.
The yardstick against which Dr. Lim was judged, together with its more exacting 2024 successor, frontloads specialist-grade investigation onto a primary care setting that has neither the equipment, the consultation time, nor the resources to deliver it.
This talk proposes a ten-minute triage anchored in three bedside red flags, with instrumented assessment and definitive vascular work placed where they belong — downstream, with the specialist. The aim is a national standard that frontline doctors can realistically meet and defend, paired with a referral pathway that actually delivers, and that produces better — not merely better-documented — patient outcomes.
Our Speaker
Dr. Tay Jia Sheng
Vascular, Endovascular and General Surgery
Dr. Tay Jia Sheng is a experienced specialist in general surgery, with a subspecialty focus in minimally invasive vascular, endovascular, and endovenous surgery.
He graduated from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), in 2004. He had extensive exposure and experience in multiple surgical disciplines such as General Surgery, Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery and Paediatric Surgery before formally embarking on Advanced Specialist Training in General Surgery.
He obtained his Master of Medicine in Surgery from NUS in 2015 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2017. He joined Sengkang General Hospital in 2019 as one of the key founding vascular surgeons, making significant contributions to the establishment and development of the subspecialty unit.
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