The ultimate goal of medicine is to serve humanity. That focus informs everything we do, from admissions to curriculum design to teaching and mentoring.

Diversity in our faculty, professional staff, students and trainees has always been fundamental to our mission. Respect for culture and understanding diversity as part of the fabric of everyday life are essential to medicine as a profession and to the advancement of research that leads to international collaborations.

Many research programs take advantage of cross-campus expertise, with notable collaborations between our College faculty in engineering or biomedical engineering.Collaborative work, like team learning, is essential to who we are as a school. The idea is to achieve your goals and balance at the same time. To learn while sharing, to learn while serving.

We provide avenues for our students to develop new interests, or continue established pursuits – in civic activities, music and other arts – and they have dozens of clubs and groups. We are promoting wholeness, wellness and a sense of connection with the world and to each other, so our students can lead better lives as professionals.

Our students are adults who come to us with their own ideas and ambitions. Given the opportunity to grow as individuals, by meeting new challenges in an environment of collaborative learning and respect, they discover a deep sense of purpose. If we do a good job as their guides, our graduates emerge sure of their knowledge and skills, but with a healthy perspective and a measure of humility appropriate to lifelong learners.

Wang Fang, MD

Dean of College of Basic Medical Sciences