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Health

Number of Dental Schools and Pharmacy Schools in the Schedule

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Overseas Dental and Pharmacy schools recognised by Singapore Dental Council and Singapore Pharmacy Council respectively.

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2017

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

No of schools by Year

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NumberofDentalSchoolsandPharmacySchoolsintheSchedule.csv (24 rows, 464 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Specialisation
Text
No. of Schools
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)8.3%
2006Dentistry34
2006Pharmacyna
2007Dentistry34
2007Pharmacyna
2008Dentistry89
2008Pharmacy124
2009Dentistry89
2009Pharmacy124
2010Dentistry89
2010Pharmacy133
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_1f1faa635f8695c307ec6ca5261a4578"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Health. (2016). Number of Dental Schools and Pharmacy Schools in the Schedule (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1f1faa635f8695c307ec6ca5261a4578/view

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Created on

07 Jul 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)