The Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke-NUS) is an innovative collaboration between Duke University in North Carolina, United States, and the National University of Singapore. The beginnings of Duke-NUS can be traced back to Singapore’s launch of an ambitious Biomedical Sciences Initiative in 2000. It was designed to make Singapore the biomedical hub of Asia, and to attract both research and health sector manufacturing capabilities to the country.

As a Southeast Asian medical school that follows the American model of post-baccalaureate medical education (in which students begin their medical studies after earning a bachelor’s degree), Duke-NUS offers a unique opportunity for students with potential to excel in the field of medicine and biomedical sciences. It offers a rigorous four-year graduate-entry medical education programme, with a distinctive focus on medical research, education and patient care.

Our faculty is mainly made up of local clinicians and international scientific figures. They are committed to deliver a curriculum based on that of the world-renowned Duke University School of Medicine, but adapted to fit with local needs. A unique point of the Duke-NUS education model is that our students cover basic sciences in one year. This gives them the opportunity to care for patients one full year earlier than their peers from other medical schools. Moreover, they dedicate one full year for independent scholarship and research to further explore their interests in becoming future clinician-scientists.

Upon successfully completing the course of study and fulfilling all requirements, our students will be awarded a Joint Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from the Duke University and the National University of Singapore.        

For more information, please visit our website at: http://www.duke-nus.edu.sg