Community-based medical education: To each, his own

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Community-based medical education plays an important part of medical education as learning occurs outside of the four-walled classroom, and exposure to real-life medicine is given. In Singapore, our medical education is progressively geared towards the incorporation of community-based medical education as part of our curriculum, albeit most of the programmes being voluntary. This is an article detailing the experiences of three Singaporean medical students' experiences with three different forms of community-based medical education.