{"id":72445,"date":"2026-07-29T03:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72445"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:40:24","slug":"pornsak-goes-back-to-school-at-44-after-getting-accepted-into-nus-medical-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72445","title":{"rendered":"Pornsak Goes Back To School At 44 After Getting Accepted Into NUS Medical School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lately, our social media feeds have been filled with proud parents celebrating their children&#8217;s milestones, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/entertainment\/local\/chew-chor-meng-missed-daughters-nus-graduation-proudly-celebrated-her-big-day-home-861066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chew Chor Meng&#8217;s daughter<\/a>&#8216;s NUS graduation to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/entertainment\/local\/diana-ser-children-university-advice-861081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Ser<\/a>&#8216;s two kids who will be starting uni next year.<\/p>\n<p>Former Mediacorp host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/entertainment\/local\/pornsak-no-show-star-awards-japan-selling-soup-829506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pornsak<\/a>, however, has decided it&#8217;s his turn to hit the books again at 44 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The local host announced on Instagram that he&#8217;s been accepted into the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, where he will be pursuing a Master&#8217;s degree in Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine from August.<\/p>\n<p>Classes begin on August 3, and if all goes according to plan, he will complete the programme in about two years.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing the good news on Instagram, he wrote: &#8220;I&#8217;m going back to school again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>8days.sg has reached out to Pornsak for more on his decision to further his studies, but has not received a response at press time.<\/p>\n<p>These days, many people know Pornsak for co-hosting livestreams for Ichigo.sg alongside former Mediacorp actors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/entertainment\/local\/zhang-zhenhuan-daughter-acting-china-843941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zhang Zhenxuan<\/a> and Kang Chengxi.<\/p>\n<p>But away from the cameras, he&#8217;s also been practising as a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner at Everspring Medical Group.<\/p>\n<p>Pornsak earned his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/entertainment\/local\/pornsak-aka-dr-porn-now-full-time-tcm-physician-helped-fellow-celeb-his-hair-loss-problems-538261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TCM practitioner&#8217;s licence in 2021 after spending 10 years studying<\/a> while juggling his showbiz career.<\/p>\n<p>He also shares that his Master&#8217;s programme is part-time, allowing him to continue seeing patients at his clinic while running his business and attending lectures.<\/p>\n<p>Pornsak isn&#8217;t the only local celebrity proving that learning doesn&#8217;t stop after your 20s.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, former Mediacorp actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8days.sg\/entertainment\/local\/ex-mediacorp-actress-florence-tan-49-graduates-degree-health-science-after-countless-sleepless-nights-860846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florence Tan<\/a> graduated at 49 with a degree in Health Science.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  { if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n   n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n   if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n   n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n   t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n   s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n   'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '686778738188379');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a 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