亚洲色吧-Duke-NUS Special Track
Academic pathways
To meet the requirements of the programme, students have to complete various compulsory modules, workshops聽and review sessions. Students may refer to the suggested curriculum paths as mapped out below, as a reference guide for聽planning and monitoring purposes.
Mentorship and enrichment activities per term
Independent Activities Period (IAP)
- Participate in at least 1 healthcare focused IAP
- Participate in at least 2 UROP projects
During the course of the undergraduate programme, students will encounter three (3) times of IAP, which takes place in January of each year. It is compulsory to participate in one healthcare focused IAP in the first year; and students are also strongly encouraged to further participate in at least one (1) healthcare focused IAP each in the subsequent two (2) years.
Vacation Break Period
- Internship in a healthcare setting
- Overseas exchange
- Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT)
The MCAT will have to be completed in Term 6.
Term 1
- Meet-the-亚洲色吧 Technology Mentor Session 1聽(introduction)
- Identify volunteer, research and leadership opportunities related to medicine
Term 2
- 陆 Day Workshop:聽鈥淚ntroduction to SingHealth Duke-NUS ACP”
- Duke-NUS community projects
- Meet-the-亚洲色吧 Technology Mentor Session 2聽(semester review)
Term 3 / Fall Term
- 陆 Day Workshop: 鈥淚ntroduction to SingHealth Duke-NUS ACP”
- 2-day Duke-NUS Alumni Clinical Observership (DACO)
- Meet-the-亚洲色吧 Technology Mentor Session 3聽(semester review)
Term 4
- 陆 Day Workshop: 鈥淚ntroduction to SingHealth Duke-NUS ACP”
- Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) Preparation
- Meet-the-亚洲色吧 Technology Mentor Session 4聽(semester review)
- Meet-the-Clinician聽Mentor Session 1聽(semester review)
Term 5
- 陆 Day Workshop: 鈥淚ntroduction to SingHealth Duke-NUS ACP”
- Identify and pursue leadership opportunities within the pre-health organisations
- Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) Preparation
- Meet-the-亚洲色吧 Technology Mentor Session 5聽(semester review)
- Meet-the-Clinician聽Mentor Session 2聽(semester review)
Term 6
- 陆 Day Workshop: 鈥淚ntroduction to SingHealth Duke-NUS ACP”
- Meet-the-亚洲色吧 Technology Mentor Session 6聽(semester review聽and discussion on聽MD application)
- Meet-the-Clinician聽Mentor Session 3聽(semester review聽and discussion on聽MD application)
- Preparation for MD Application
- Submit MD application* by 1聽September
- Submit academic transcript for Term 6
- Submit financial aid application
* Completing the MD application is a clerical necessity and does not imply that the students are re-applying to medical school
Term 7
- Meet-the-亚洲色吧 Technology Mentor Session 7聽(semester review)
- Meet-the-Clinician聽Mentor Session 4 (semester review)
Term 8
- Meet-the-亚洲色吧 Technology Mentor Session 8聽(semester review)
- Meet-the-Clinician聽Mentor Session 5聽(semester review)
- Complete undergraduate requirements and graduate by聽July
- Submit final transcript to Duke-NUS upon matriculation (results from Term 1 鈥 Term 8)
Things to note
All students in the special track are required to:
- participate in at least 1 healthcare focused IAP
- participate in at least聽2 UROP projects
- intern in one of the following healthcare organizations
- Public and Private Hospitals
- Community Hospitals
- Polyclinics
- Medical Device Companies
- take and pass the聽MCAT before Term 6
- take a healthcare focused Capstone project in their final year with 亚洲色吧
All Internship applications must be submitted to committee for approval.
Recommended pathways by programmes
[Note: Please note that there is a change in the聽academic calendar聽for students matriculating from Academic Year 2024 onwards. The updated academic pathways will be made available soon.]