The program is China’s double first-class discipline and falls within the plan of training remarkable doctors by the Ministry of Education (MoE). In the MoE Ranking among Colleges and Universities in terms of Degree and Discipline Evaluation 2017, the program ranks A+.

It is one of the key Sino-French cooperation programs to strengthen communication between the two governments, and embodies the long-lasting high-level cooperation between SJTUSM and French medical schools. According to cooperation agreement, Clinical Medicine (French class) enrolls students throughout the whole country, including those who have zero French language skills. French will be the first foreign language during their study at SJTUSM, and in summer of the first school year all students accept immersive language training in France for 3 months. French professors will come to SJTUSM to deliver part of the teaching, and Ruijin Hospital is responsible for the clinical teaching. The featured RBL training (the first-stage scientific research of life science) in the French class makes students obtain comprehensive, systematic, and international basic scientific research training in additional to quality clinical teaching. After completing stipulated study, students who pass examination will be qualified to go to France to accept “Foreign Resident Doctor training” or “the second-stage scientific research of life science”. French class teaching over the years has achieved remarkable results and obtained good social reputation. Students who studied in France were highly praised by French schools and became business backbones of medicine, teaching and research after getting back to China.