SJTUSM is one of the first batch of medical colleges and universities in China which established the program of undergraduate medical laboratory technology. In 1986, SJTUSM was approved to become the one of the firsts to award masters’ degree in Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, and in 1998, SJTUSM was authorized to grant doctor’s degree in Clinical Diagnostics. SJTUSM provides a distinctive mode of university-enterprise collaboration, with professional education and students’ career running through the whole teaching process. Distinctive courses include anatomy, lemology foundation, preventive healthcare, health statistics, laboratory animal science, inspection technique for clinical immunology, inspection technique for clinical foundation, inspection technique for clinical microbiology, clinical hematology and inspection technique for hematology, clinical biochemistry and inspection technique for biochemistry, molecular biology foundation and technology, clinical transfusion science and inspection technique for transfusion science, laboratory management, technologies and applications for inspection instrument analysis, clinical medicine outline and so on.

Graduates can enter clinical laboratory of medical institutions at all levels to engage in medical inspection, the laboratories in institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions to engage in experimental technology work, medical devices and reagent-related companies to engage in technology support work, or continue to study for a graduate degree (qualified students can pursue the master’s degree of SJTUSM without participating in examination) or go abroad for study.