Career Panel: Healthcare & Medicine

Synopsis

Healthcare careers are often associated with stability and prestige—but the realities involve long training pathways, high responsibility, emotional demands, and constant change. This panel explores what it truly means to work in healthcare in Singapore, beyond grades, job titles, and assumptions.

Description

Join an open dialogue with healthcare professionals from different roles across the sector as they share what their work actually looks like on the ground. Panelists will speak candidly about daily responsibilities, challenges, and the trade-offs involved in healthcare work, alongside what keeps them motivated. Participants will also have the opportunity to ask questions, explore diverse healthcare pathways, and better understand where they might fit within the system.

Takeaways

Understand how the healthcare sector operates in Singapore

Learn about different healthcare roles beyond doctors and nurses

Gain insight into the emotional, physical, and mental demands of healthcare work

Hear what professionals wish they had known before entering the field

Who Should Attend

Youth under 30 who are curious about careers in healthcare

Students from 13 to 20 considering healthcare-related education

Parents who want a clearer picture of healthcare routes and realities

Panelists

Waikit Fung - Doctor + Policy Maker

Waikit is a Public Health and Medicine nerd. He’s most energized when bridging worlds—research and policy, data and stories, global ideas and local realities. Whether partnering across sectors, advising on health programs, or walking alongside fellow students and colleagues, Waikit brings a heart for service and a mind for systems.

He cares deeply about people and believes that health is one of the most powerful ways we can express love, pursue justice, and nurture hope. From cities to rural clinics, ministries to community groups, he’s worked across countries to help make health systems kinder, smarter, and more inclusive.

Kang Wee Lee - Healthtech Business

Kang Wee is a seasoned professional in the healthcare sector, starting his journey as a teen in the St. John’s Brigade. He went on to be a business manager in a variety of healthcare companies both local and international. 

He has brought innovative and impactful healthcare products and services to healthcare systems around the world and helped the various healthcare companies he has worked in grow in their impact.

Su Xin Lim - Medical Social Worker

Being trained as a social worker, Su Xin brings an attentive eye for details and an extremely grounded heart for human beings. She has moved between social work roles in youth development, family affairs, domestic abuse, and now neck deep in healthcare.

As people face all sorts of challenges in navigating healthcare, from lacking finances, to falling through policy cracks, Su Xin stays committed to helping them attain the support and care they need.

About this Series

Curious about where your passions can take you? Career Panels for Youth brings together inspiring professionals from diverse industries to share honest, behind-the-scenes insights into their work and journeys. Look out our monthly sessions in 2026 covering different industries! You’re very likely to find out exactly what you want to pursue, after attending all sessions!