Program Overview

Introduction to the MD Program

The MD Program at Zhejiang University School of Medicine is designed to prepare and empower future physician-scientists and medical leaders. Launched in 2004, this program is open to students with a 4-year bachelor degree from various non-medicine majors. The purpose of this program is to produce top-notch medical talents with a solid foundation, overall medical knowledge, excellent clinical skills, and medical research capacities.

Program Overview

The program aims to cultivate future leaders with a generous basis, superb knowledge, ability, and quality, rich innovative spirit and ability, international vision, and lasting competitiveness in the medicine and related fields. It adopted the conventions from the US, where students are required to get a 4-year non-medicine bachelor degree before entering 4-year medical training.

Medicine + X = Multiple Pathway

Our students come from every background and find themselves welcomed by world-class mentors in every field of medicine and science.

Post-doctoral Program of Clinical Medicine

The post-doctoral program of clinical medicine is open to students of the 8-year MD program for systemic education of clinical medicine concerns. After graduation, students experience the post-doctoral phase of clinical medicine for 3 years to conduct clinical and research training and complete national standardized training for resident physicians.

Courses and Instruction

The program includes courses instructed by overseas professors, including but not limited to:

• Application of Classified Data Analysis in Public Health (Professor Shen Wei from University of Georgia, USA)
  • This course focuses on the application of data analysis in public health
• Geriatrics (Professor Sean Xiao Leng from School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
  • This course covers the principles and practices of geriatric care
• Brain and Society (Professor Dick Swaab from Institute of Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences)
  • This course explores the relationship between the brain and society
• Systematic Anatomy (Professor Kees Hillebart de Jong from University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  • This course provides a comprehensive overview of human anatomy

Testimonial

"I would like to express my deep and sincere thanks to the Medicine + X training mode of the 8-year medical education program of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, since it gives me a chance to apply non-medical professional knowledge and skills to solve practical problems in the clinical field, which helped me to pursue my physician career with a different kind of brilliance."

• WANG Qiwen, Class of 2009, MD Program