The program falls within national-level first-class undergraduate program construction site, training Program 2.0 for top students in basic disciplines and Plan for strengthening basic disciplines approved by the Ministry of Education. SJTUSM and Zhiyuan College join hands to provide students with at least one opportunity for overseas study tour to expand internationalized vision. The “One-to-one tutorial system” is implemented for the program, with a four-year undergraduate length of schooling, and four-year or five-year doctor length of schooling. Graduates with outstanding academic performance can enter “Zhiyuan Honor Plan” of doctors for further study.

The program is aimed at cultivating the talents in the fields of medicine research and education who have profound Physics and Chemistry Foundation and knowledge about modern bioscience, digest medicine knowledge, are full of lofty ideal, noble sentiment, innovation thinking and global vision. Distinctive courses include the core courses for the program include Introduction to Biomedical Science, biochemistry, cytology, genetics, body structure and function, lemology foundation, Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Introduction to Biomedicine Science Literature and so on. Also, a series of experimental courses, RBL scientific research training and graduation design and other scientific research practice are designed to realize leap-type improvement in innovation ability. Graduates can enter senior medicine colleges and universities, top hospitals, scientific research institutes and biomedicine companies to engage in scientific research and teaching work.