To get admission into Singapore’s third medical school simply having ‘A’ grading will not be enough. The students will also need extra qualities like being a team player, being able to communicate well with other and also have excellent inter-personal skills.

The new medical school is to be established by the Nayang Technological University (NTU) in collaboration with the Imperial College London.

Officials from the Imperial College said in an attempt to ink their partnership with NTU that the school aims at producing physicians who will prove to be not just having a sound medical base but also the ‘humanity’ to provide care which is ‘patient centered’.

Professor Martyn Partridge, the would-be senior vice-dean of the school, said, “There's been a danger that we've lost that feeling of service in my profession. If it's important for a restaurant or hotel, then it quite definitely has to be at the centre when we offer support to people who are ill, elderly or frightened.”

She is presently the professor of respiratory medicine at the Imperial College and is going to take over her new designation in 2013 when the school is set to open.