Dr Raj Menon completed his undergraduate
training at the National University of Singapore and embarked on specialist
training in General Surgery with the Department of Surgery, NUH. He completed
his fellowship exams with the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and embarked
on further training in Trauma and Vascular Surgery. He was awarded the Academic
Medicine Development Award and completed a fellowship with the Royal London
Hospital in Advanced Trauma and Vascular Surgery in 2018. He also completed a
Masters in Trauma Science with the Queen Mary University of London in 2018.
His main clinical interests lie with the
management of complex polytrauma patients and the use of novel endovascular
techniques in their management. He is also interested in the development of
national and regional trauma systems, trauma epidemiology and the psychosocial
effects of trauma. He also runs the Surgical High Dependency Unit, a
multi-specialty critical care unit focusing on acutely ill surgical patients.
A keen educator, he has been actively involved
in undergraduate education, both in surgical curriculum development, as well as
a phase director for undergraduate surgical education with the Yong Loo Lin
School of Medicine. He was awarded the Dean’s award for teaching excellence in
2014, 2015 and 2016, the Outstanding Tutor award by the Medical Society in
2015, and NUHS Teaching Excellence award in 2017.
Dr Raj has also been actively involved in the
organisation and running of the General Surgery residency programme in NUHS. As
a graduate of the pioneer cohort of the Singapore Chief Residency Programme run
by the Healthcare Leadership College and as the Chief Resident of the surgery programme
in NUH, he developed an interest in post graduate training and mentoring. He
functioned as the principle core faculty for the PGY1 Programme in General
Surgery in 2017 and is now the Associate Programme Director of the General
Surgery Residency Programme in NUHS. He is also the Co-Director of the NUHS
Residency Leadership Development Programme, which equips chief residents with
the skills necessary to take on junior leadership positions within their
departments.