In December 2002, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced that it had decided to revise the list of recognised foreign universities and medical schools in the Schedule of the Medical Registration Act (MRA).

 A limited expansion of the Schedule would allow our medical institutions to recruit sufficient numbers of good foreign-trained doctors to meet their needs, while avoiding an oversupply of doctors in the future.

The Singapore Medical Council (SMC) was tasked to recommend to MOH which medical schools should be included in the revised Schedule. The SMC has now completed its review and MOH has accepted the SMC's recommendations for the revised Schedule.

The revised Schedule will come into effect from 14 March 2003 and will increase the number of medical schools recognised for registration by nearly 3-fold, from 24 to 71.

The 47 new additions include medical schools from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The full list of medical schools in the revised Schedule is found at Annex A.

MOH has also accepted the SMC's recommendation that the current quota on the number of Singaporeans that can be admitted to the Faculties of Medicine in the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne should be lifted.

A set of answers to questions on the revised MRA Schedule is attached at Annex B.

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