Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Overview
The NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine is Singapore’s first and largest medical school. Its enduring mission centres on nurturing highly competent, values-driven, and inspired healthcare professionals to transform the practice of medicine and improve health around the world.
The School admits 280 to 300 students every year into its undergraduate degree programme and produces the majority of doctors for Singapore. Through a dynamic and future-oriented five-year curriculum that is inter-disciplinary and inter-professional in nature, its students undergo a holistic learning experience that exposes them to multiple facets of healthcare and prepares them to become visionary leaders and compassionate doctors and nurses of tomorrow.
Along the way, the School has burnished its reputation as a crucible of significant research spanning the basic as well as clinical sciences. Its faculty comprises academic clinicians and scientists who have been awarded their credentials locally and internationally. The School’s strategic research programmes focus on innovative, cutting-edge biomedical research with collaborators around the world to deliver high impact solutions to benefit human lives.
A transformational gift in 2005 from the Yong Loo Lin Trust further enabled the School to map new pathways of scientific enquiry into various causes and origins of key illnesses like cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, epigenetics and neurocognition. The gift also enabled a far-reaching revamp of the undergraduate education curriculum. This places the patient squarely in the centre of focus of everything that is now taught and done at the School, which was renamed in honour of its far-sighted benefactor.
NUS Medicine strives to fulfil its mission of contributing to excellent clinical care, training the next generation of healthcare professionals, and fostering research that will help transform the practice of medicine. Its departments in the basic sciences and clinical specialties work closely with the Translational Research Programmes, as well as the Centre for Medical Education and the Centre for Biomedical Ethics to ensure that teaching and research are aligned and relevant to Singapore’s healthcare needs. In 2008, the School became an integral part of the National University Health System (NUHS), which also groups the National University Hospital, the NUS Faculty of Dentistry and the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. NUHS aims to develop and provide innovative, sustainable, and value-driven healthcare for Singaporeans.
The School is the oldest institution of higher learning in the National University of Singapore. It is one of the leading medical schools in Asia and ranks among the best in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026 by subject and the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by subject 2026).
Please visit the School’s website at https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/contact-us/ for the contact details.