Duke-NUS Medical School is a vibrant community of learning and research set in one of the world’s most effervescent cities. To give you a flavour of our community, consider some of the things that distinguish us.

Since our School’s inception, our education ethos has been to cultivate the capabilities of our graduates to be creative thinkers and compassionate advocates who address unmet healthcare needs and improve medical practice.

We are situated in an exceptionally facilitative ecosystem. We are located on the campus of Singapore General Hospital, and have forged the ambitious SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre with our strategic partner and the nation’s largest healthcare cluster, SingHealth, to deliver excellence in clinical care, research, education and innovation. And Singapore itself is at the forefront of a formidable population health movement to improve and sustain the nation’s health.

We were born of a partnership between two leading universities, the National University of Singapore and Duke University. We embody cross-border academic medical collaboration, and its capacity to mutually improve and enrich through the interchange of perspectives and practices. Our students in the Doctor of Medicine (MD) and select PhD programmes receive joint degrees from both of these top global universities.

We are Singapore’s only graduate-entry medical school, with students drawn from a global and diverse applicant pool representing over 30 nationalities, who come to us after completing their undergraduate, and sometimes even Master’s and PhD degrees.

Our curriculum includes an important component of research and scholarly work. While this idea dates back to the 1960s at Duke University, it is particularly relevant today with technological disruptions, sociodemographic shifts and challenges in care delivery. This is a unique curricular advantage for students who foresee scientific inquiry in their professional future. On the other hand, students drawn to clinical leadership and healthcare innovation will distinguish themselves in the future with skills in critical thinking, complex problem-solving and active learning, honed in a concentrated engagement with research and scholarship.

More generally, given our unique curricular structure, a uniquely broad range of professional paths and identities are open to our graduates, including as leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, scholars, academicians, educators or combinations of these.

Our curriculum includes vital longitudinal components to complement our students’ clinical skills. As students undertake clinical rotations, they periodically return to campus for guided focus on areas such as ethics, professionalism, communication, data analytics, reflective practice and patient safety. Students additionally explore public and population health, innovation and design thinking as ways in which physicians, together with experts from other disciplines, can improve health and promote wellness in the community and population.

If you have the right type of motivation, the right level of discipline, and a drive to do the right thing, we provide the right learning and environment for you to succeed in pursuit of a fulfilling life of purpose – to do right by society – as we strive to realise the Duke-NUS vision of Transforming medicine, Improving lives.