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October 10, 2005 Volume 14 No. 19

Sending Duke Medicine to Singapore

Singapore.

It’s a tiny city-country, only about 3.5 times the size of Washington D.C.

It’s halfway around the world from Duke (12 hours’ difference in time zones).

It’s where Asian students will soon be able to benefit from the unique curriculum of Duke University’s School of Medicine.

The official signing of an agreement for Singapore and Duke to collaborate to create the a Graduate Medical School (GMS) in that country...The Singapore GMS will be the first medical school in Singapore based on the U.S. model of students studying medicine after completing a bachelor’s degree. The existing medical school in Singapore follows the British model where students begin studying medicine after specializing in the sciences in high school.

“This partnership between Duke and Singapore is unique,” says Williams. “It is not simply a partnership between two schools...

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