Welcome to NUS Medicine!
As Singapore’s first medical school established in 1905, our enduring mission is to ensure the health and well-being of Singaporeans, and to continuously improve the understanding and practice of medicine for all.
Our vision is to inspire health for all. We will do this through educating and training doctors and nurses who are as skilled in promoting health as well as in managing illness, and whom you can entrust your loved ones to. We will nurture researchers and innovators who can transform our understanding of medicine and reimagine how healthcare should be delivered. Our research is aimed to help expand medicine’s frontiers, transforming insights mined from scientific inquiry into clinical solutions that improve health and healthcare.
Our future-oriented undergraduate curriculum ensures that our graduates are knowledgeable and highly competent healthcare professionals, able and ready to function confidently and effectively in a wide variety of roles and settings. All teaching is conducted by experienced faculty staff who are practising clinicians as well as respected scientists, using technology-enabled, multi-media learning formats. Early exposure to patients allows our students to learn empathy and respect for patients, peers and colleagues while gaining valuable clinical insights. This learning is intensified and personalised through the Longitudinal Patient Experience, which sees students keeping in close touch with patients coping with chronic illnesses over the course of their studies.
As NUS trains nurses, pharmacists, allied health and social workers as well as doctors, teaching pedagogies are inter-disciplinary, inter-professional and multi-dimensional in nature and prepares our students to work as integrated members of a multi-disciplinary care team. And as part of their undergraduate curriculum, students get to spend a portion of an academic year at some of the best healthcare institutions in the world. There, they are exposed to different cultures and healthcare systems that help them understand the full spectrum of medicine and global health. The five-year NUS MBBS curriculum is thus designed to produce doctors who are future-ready, clinically adept, caring and ethically grounded.
