The program is an emerging medicine technology discipline extremely full of clinical abilities and discipline intersection, and involves professional knowledge about basic medical sciences, clinical medicine, physics, computer science and other multiple disciplines. In the program, “elite-type and small class” teaching is adopted, relying on the powerful strength of clinical medicine discipline in science, engineering course and School of Medicine of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. SJTUSM also introduces a intersected training mode of trans-colleges, cross-disciplines, and coalition of college and enterprise, distinctive course groups of intersection of medicine and industry and clinical practice bases to strengthen the innovation awareness and theory transformation abilities. The teaching system includes the whole process from undergraduate, master, doctor to continuing medical education.

Guided by the needs of the industrial upgrading of modern medical imaging technology and the clinical transformation and application of new technologies for "innovative, R & D, and compound medical talents", the program aims to cultivate remarkable medical imaging technical talents with profound humanistic background, solid professional knowledge, skilled clinical skills, strong innovative consciousness, and broad international vision.

Distinctive courses include anatomy, lemology foundation, clinical medicine outline, preventive healthcare, sectional anatomy, medical imaging anatomy, principals of medical imaging, medical imaging equipment, medical imaging technique, medical imageology, medical imaging process, radio physics and radiation protection. Graduates are mainly engaged in clinical operation of imaging technology, application research and development, teaching and scientific research work and so on in national-level medical center, production organizations of medical equipment, colleges and universities.