Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
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The Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine is the medical school of the
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. The school was established in 2013 as
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's third
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, after the
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and the
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. It is a collaboration between
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and
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.


Dual campus


Novena

The main campus of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine is located in Novena, situated next to the institution's partner hospital,
Tan Tock Seng Hospital Tan Tock Seng Hospital (abbreviation: TTSH) is a tertiary referral hospital in Singapore, located in Novena. The hospital has 45 clinical and allied health departments, 16 specialist centres and is powered by more than 8,000 healthcare staff. ...
. The 20-storey Clinical Sciences Building, which commenced construction in January 2015, was opened on 2 March 2017 and facilitates both classroom as well as clinical teaching of medicine. The Clinical Sciences Building also houses various research labs, and students are welcome to apply for attachments with them.


Yunnan Garden

The faculty's first building, the Experimental Medicine Building, opened in August 2015 and houses classrooms as well as several research labs. Situated within the main
Nanyang Technological University The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national research university in Singapore. It is the second oldest autonomous university in the country and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world by various inte ...
campus grounds, it allows students to interact with other faculties more frequently, before they move on to the clinical years of medical school.


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Programme Website
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