{"id":161891,"date":"2025-12-01T06:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/161891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:12:07","slug":"forum-enhanced-training-pathways-will-preserve-allied-health-professional-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/161891\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum: Enhanced training pathways will preserve allied health professional expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">We thank Singapore Association of Occupational Therapists president Gabriel Kwek and Singapore Physiotherapy Association president\u00a0Kwah\u00a0Li Khim  for their letters (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/opinion\/forum\/forum-safeguards-in-allied-health-training-preserve-professional-standards?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">Safeguards in allied health training preserve professional standards<\/p>\n<p><\/a>, Nov 25, and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/opinion\/forum\/forum-safeguard-professional-standards-and-workforce-capacity-in-allied-health-sector?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">Safeguard professional standards and workforce capacity in allied health sector,<\/p>\n<p><\/a> Nov  27).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Both supported enhancing training pathways for allied health professionals, but highlighted\u00a0the need to preserve professional standards, which is an objective the Ministry of Health (MOH) shares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Under the enhanced training pathways, we want to be more deliberate in introducing modular training.\u00a0It is commonly practised  around the world, in many sectors, and is becoming more common in Singapore\u2019s healthcare sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Modular training draws a stronger linkage between training and the tasks at the workplace.\u00a0It enables healthcare professionals to\u00a0more readily and easily acquire new skills\u00a0to broaden and deepen their professional expertise.\u00a0It lets us take a more patient-centric approach, to efficiently impart the necessary skills in the care team to serve patients well.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">With an increasing number of seniors with multiple and complex\u00a0chronic medical conditions, this is an important direction to take. This is about maintaining standards, while making training more flexible and efficient. It enhances collaboration and does not seek to merge or replace professions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">To make these changes, we need the support of professional bodies.\u00a0We would like to reassure Mr Kwek\u00a0and Associate Professor\u00a0Kwah\u00a0that\u00a0MOH recognises the unique expertise of each profession, and\u00a0the required qualifications\u00a0for entry into\u00a0the respective\u00a0professions will remain.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Susan Niam (Adjunct Professor)<br \/>Chief Allied Health Officer<br \/>Ministry of Health<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s LettersMinistry of HealthHealthcare professionals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We thank Singapore Association of Occupational Therapists president Gabriel Kwek and Singapore Physiotherapy Association president\u00a0Kwah\u00a0Li Khim for their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-161891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}