Adj Assoc Prof Tan Lay Ling

Dr Tan Lay Ling is a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist with the Department of Psychological Medicine, Psychogeriatric Service, at Changi General Hospital (CGH). Her clinical interests include mental illnesses in the elderly with an interest in palliative care in people with dementia.

Dr Tan is also a Clinician Educator and Adjunct Assistant Professor with NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Associate Program Director with the National Psychiatry Residency Program and Associate Faculty with Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her research interests cover a spectrum of mental illnesses in the elderly including depression, suicide, grief & bereavement and decision making in people with dementia. Dr Tan also has an interest in medical education research in supervision and mentoring.

• Advanced Certificate in Assessment and Training (Singapore)
• Grad Certificate in Palliative Medicine (Flinders University, Australia)
• MMed (Psy)
  
• MBBS (Singapore)
  

• Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• Singapore University of Social Studies (SUSS) /Associate teaching faculty / Supervisor
• MOH/National Psychiatry Residency Program /Member of the Clinical Competency Committee
• MOH/National Psychiatry Residency Program /Member of the Program Evaluation Committee
• Lion's Home (Bedok) Visiting Consultant
• Psychological Medicine / CGH / Director of Training, Professional Development
• Psychological Medicine / CGH / Member of Quality Improvement Workgroup
• CGH / Alternated member Medical Audit Committee
• CGH / Member Independent panel for reviewing medical futility cases
• MOH / CGH / Chairman, PRL QAC
• MOH Member, National Mental Health Professional Advisory Committee (Depression and Anxiety Workgroup)
• MOH Member, Community Mental Health Website Resource Group
• MOH EOL workgroup for the Elderly

• CGH Clinician Educator Awarded Best Educator - Outstanding Educator's Award
  
• CGH Sponsorship for the Master in Health Profession Education
  

• Jan 2018 - Dec 2020 Singapore Millennium Foundation “Panel study Investigating Status of Cognitively impaired Elderly in Singapore (PISCES)” My contribution is as a Co-Principal Investigator in this national study involving Dukes-NUS, Lien Foundation, St Lukes Hospital, SGH, TTSH, KTPGH, Tsao Foundation. 
• May 2017 - May 2018 An action group research on adopting a palliative care approach to people with advanced dementia in CPGP Through participatory action research, there is facilitation of more effective interventions pertaining to palliative care of advanced dementia by the multidisciplinary team members of CPGP 
• Sept 2017 - Sept 2018 The educational quality of the CME in the Department of Psychological Medicine To conduct a survey and focus group of how the multidisciplinary team members perceive the usefulnessness of the department's CME on their clinical practice 
• May 2017 - May 2018 Teaching Case Formulation in the National Psychiatry Training Program Conducting a survey amongst residents and faculty regarding their perception of case formulation and to generate ideas of improving the teaching and learning of case formulation in psychiatry.
  

• 10/1/18 - 14/1/18 Facilitating the mentoring and supervisory skills of faculty in the National Psychiatry Residency Program Presenting as poster in the 15th Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference 10/1/18 - 14/1/18 Singapore; shortlisted for Best Abstract for Poster Presentation 
• 25/04/2017 Decision making in people with dementia - a study of family careers in Singapore Presented as poster in the 32nd International Conference Alzheimer's Dementia International 25/4/17- 28/4/17 Kyoto
• 25/8/17 - 31/8/17 Strategies to determine readiness for independent clinical practice amongst junior psychiatry residents in the ambulatory setting Presented as poster at the Association for Medical Education Europe Conference (AMEE)25/8/17- 31/8/17 
• 17 Jul 2017 "Application of the European quality indicators for psychosocial dementia care in long-term care facilities in the Asia-Pacific region: a pilot study" Publication: Aging & Mental Health DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2017.1351521