• Highlights

  The Outstanding Clinician Scholar Program (OCSP) will recruit world-class universities’ undergraduate students from diversified disciplines to study for a degree of clinical medicine.The graduates will be conferred a doctorate as M.D. (Doctor of Medicine). This program aims to cultivate the future generation of outstanding clinicians, scholars and leaders with great humanistic feelings, rich scientific literacy and compound multiple-disciplined knowledge.

  This program adopts the integration of an organ system-based curriculum to train students’ clinical practice competence through four modules: introduction to medicine, organ system-based learning, clinical specialty learning and clinical practice.

  In addition to teaching systematic medical knowledge and training clinical practice competence, this program will also provide courses on professionalism, medical humanities, clinical research ability and leadership throughout the process. These courses will help to cultivate students' excellent healthcare ability and clinical research abilities that integrate medical and multidisciplinary knowledge to solve complicated clinical problems, edify humanistic literacy, as well as cultivate medical feelings.

  Moreover, this program will also provide unique opportunities for oversea exchanges and studies. Students will have access to world-class medical centers in the US, UK, Australia, Singapore, etc. This will help them to have a broad international vision, strategic insight into medical development trends, excellent leadership and global competence.

  This unique curriculum of the Outstanding Clinician Scholar Program will train students through diversified pathways, highlighting the core value of “Tsinghua New Medicine”. We believe there will be much more clinicians, physician-scientists, physician-engineers, physician-inventors and medical administration experts graduating from the Outstanding Clinician Scholar Program in the future. They will become the most outstanding “medical+X” versatile talents for the great mission of Health China construction, national rejuvenation and protection for human health and well-being.

  Welcome foreign talents who are interested in medicine to join us!

• Application Qualifications

  1. Applicants must be non-Chinese citizens with a valid passport.

  2. Only accepts bachelor degree holders to pursue doctoral degrees.

  3. Bachelor's degree holders, or students who will graduate next year (students who have yet to graduate must guarantee to obtain their Bachelor's degree before the registration date for Doctoral students). In principle, the degree diploma awarded by overseas universities should be authenticated by Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange,Ministry of Education, P.R. China.

  4. Applicants should be in good health and of good character(meet the physical examination requirements stipulated by the country and THU)be well-behaved and be willing to abide by China's laws and regulations, as well as Tsinghua's rules.

• Application Requirements

  1. Language Competence Requirements:

  1) Chinese Proficiency Requirements: HSK band 4-with a score of 195 or above.

  1) English Proficiency Requirements for Non-native English speakers: TOEFL 80 / IELTS 6.5 or above.

  2. Recommendation Letters:

  Two recommendation letters from scholars who hold the title of associate professor or higher. The letters must state that the Bachelor's degree holder has the learning and research ability to pursue a Doctoral degree directly.

  3. Other application requirements:

  1) Undergraduate study at a world-class university.

• Required Pre-med Courses

  All the applicants need to finish pre-med courses and submit a qualified transcript before entrance. The required pre-med courses for 2025 are listed as follows (Table 1). These courses can be studied in original university or online.

  Number	Discipline	Curriculum	Minimum Credits
  1	Mathematics	Calculus	3 credits
  2		Linear Algebra	3 credits
  3	Physics	Physics	4 credits
  4	Chemistry	Chemical Principles	2 credits
  5		Organic Chemistry	3 credits
  6		Lab. of Organic Chemistry	1 credit
  7	Biology	Principles of Biochemistry	3 credits
  8		Basic Practical Biochemistry	4 credits
  9		Medical Molecular Biology	2 credits
  10		Laboratory of Molecular Biology	2 credits
  11		Cell Biology	3 credits
  12		Experiment of Cell Biology	1 credits
  13	General	Writing and Communication	2 credits

• Remarks of Application

  1. The accommodation is arranged on the Tsinghua University campus for the first semester and in Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital for the other semesters.

  2. Tuition Fee for 2025 : 40,000 /Year

• How to Apply

  Applicants should complete an Online Application ( https://yzbm.tsinghua.edu.cn/intlLogin ) during the designated THU application period. Applicants should fill in the application information online, upload the application documents listed below to the Online Application System, and pay the application fee online at the time of submission.

Contact Information

Email：thumed-zs@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Tel：+86-10-62773751