The mission of the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) program is to prepare students to become physician leaders who can advance biomedical research and improve local, national, and global health.

Admissions Requirements: Full-time master of medicine with completion of resident physician standardized training

Features: 1. Strengthen the top-level design, and build an educational model that is compatible with the training goals of M.D. program. 2. Guided by training goals, implement the all-round educational reform that is conducive to the improvement of dual abilities of M.D. students: Parallel paths for enhancing the “dual abilities” of clinical practice and clinical research. 3. Strengthen collaboration and linkage management, and further promote the mechanism guarantee of medical-educational collaboration in the cultivation of doctoral degree students in clinical medicine. 4. Based on talent quality, innovate the whole-chain quality control evaluation system: combine formative evaluation with summative evaluation, internal evaluation and external evaluation.

On the basis of the basic requirements of the Ministry of Education on the doctoral degree of clinical medicine, the core goal of "giving equal importance to clinical practice ability and clinical research ability" was clarified. Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine was selected as one of the first batch of pilot schools for the education reform of postgraduate education for doctoral degrees in clinical medicine by the Ministry of Education in 2016. This program improves students’ logical thinking and problem-solving ability, so that they can not only independently deal with common diseases and some intractable diseases in their professional fields, but also have the ability to carry out innovative researches related with their clinical practice.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine is responsible for all aspects of the educational program, from admission to graduation, including oversight, development and management of the MD curriculum, student services and support, educational quality improvement, educational space planning and development, and educational policies development and review.

So far, 594 students have been recruited and 187 have graduated with a degree. Most of the graduates have become leading medical professionals in local tertiary care hospitals and the backbone of scientific research in the departments. A number of graduates have already been dispatched paired-up remote areas in our country to support local healthcare.