Background

The NUS Pre-Medical (Pre-Med) track is a newly offered track that provides to a select group of undergraduate students from across all disciplines a unique opportunity to better prepare them for entry to a graduate medical program upon successful completion of their NUS undergraduate degree and the requirements of the NUS Pre-Med Track.

In the Pre-Med track, students have the opportunities to engage in scientific research, clinical and volunteer activities and leadership experiences. The series of courses and experiences that students go through in the Pre-Med Track puts them in good position to receive special consideration for early admission into DUKE-NUS or apply for admission into other graduate medical programmes or graduate programmes in bio-medical fields.

A Joint Committee (JC) comprising members from various NUS Schools/ Faculties will manage the Pre-Med track.

The Pre-Med Track

Students will be are required to fulfill the following under this track:

1) Science Foundational:
To prepare for graduate medical study & the MCAT exams, students need to acquire knowledge and understanding in the following key foundational sciences: Biology, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physics, and Math. These requirements may be acquired through student’s major, reading relevant modules or self-study.

2) Writing/Communications:
Students need to develop confidence & skill in writing & communications; which can be achieved partly through reading communications, writing and/or critical thinking module(s).

3) Breadth:
The very best clinicians, scientists, & medical professionals have diverse/broad backgrounds that enable them to look at problems from very unique / different perspectives. Students will be encouraged to broaden beyond their major by reading modules in different areas.

For a list of recommended modules, please click here.

Special activities will be organized for Pre-Med track students:

1) Pre-Med Freshmen Seminars (FS):
This specially designed Pre-Med freshmen seminars "FMS1201D Transforming Medicine: from bench to bedside and beyond’  will provide an opportunity for students to interact with faculty members and postdoctoral students at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School to better understand aspects of medicine, clinical research and other relevant areas. This may possibly help students to decide if a medical education is right for them and also provide an opportunity for faculty to better understand these students.

More information can be found at http://www.science.nus.edu.sg/undergraduates/curriculum/sp1201/topics.html

2) Regular Seminars/Talks:
Organized for students on medical careers, graduate medical education, research in medicine & related fields, medical ethics, professionalism and etc. Students will be required to attend a minimum number of such seminars in each year.

3) Internships/Undergraduate Research Projects:
Students will be required to do at least one internship or undergraduate research project. This may be done at the faculties (e.g. UROPS), relevant research institutes or biomedical research labs.

4) Overseas Exposure:
Enable students to gain international and cross-cultural perspectives on the critical medical & health policy questions, which are global issues/concerns. Students will be encouraged to take up overseas opportunities incl. overseas internships, overseas research projects, and summer programs etc. Every year, five PMP students would get the unique opportunity to spend a semester in Duke University in the United States for Student Exchange Programme (SEP).

Entry Criteria

NUS undergraduates will be invited to apply during their first or second year of study via email. Candidates will be assessed based on their academic potential & achievements, passion, motivation and curiosity. Shortlisted candidates will be required to read the Freashmen Seminar 'FMS1201D Transforming Medicine: from bench to bedsie and beyond'. Students will be further assessed for their aptitude throughout the course of the module. Students deemed suitable will then be offered a place in the Pre-Med Programme after completing the module.

Continuing in the Programme

Candidates in the Pre-Med track will be reviewed at the end of each Academic Year to ascertain whether they will be allowed to continue in the track. The candidates will be assessed based on:

• academic performance; students should maintain a CAP of at least 4.25

• active participation in the special programmes / activities organized by the JC

• personalized evaluation from academic advisors / Freshman Seminar facilitators or project mentors

Pr  Pre-Med Advisors

·         A team of Pre-Med Advisors will track the progress of Pre-Med students and provide a distinctive and personalized evaluation throughout the students' candidature. The Pre-Med Advisors are assigned to students accordingly to their majors:

Application

The call for applications will be sent out to first and second year students around November/December each year.

Pre-Med Track FAQs

For Enquiries, please email

Ms. Koh Li Ling , Faculty of Science

Ms. Lisa Moo , Faculty of Engineering