Regulation

Admission requirements
Applicants must have a bachelor degree in medicine, dentistry or TCM or a bachelor degree from other departments in medical science, agriculture or engineering. They are admitted by review of merits and interviews, or by written and oral examinations. Around of 11 students are enrolled for the MSc. course each year, while about 4 students are enrolled for the Ph.D. course each year.

Curriculum
The normal minimum period is 2 years of full-time study for the Master’s program and students must complete courses of no less than 30 credits, including 6 credits for the thesis. The program is offered in 2 groups: A and B. Group A is designed for students that have graduated from a Faculty of Medicine, a Faculty of Dentistry, and/or Department of Chinese Medicine. Group B is designed for students that have graduated from medical schools, colleges/institutes of technology or polytechnics, and/or related departments of colleges/institutes of agriculture. Candidates are admitted to the program through either selection or examination. Since the institute was founded, about 10-11 candidates have successfully enrolled in the institute every year; and over 155 students have successfully completed their study and obtained their Master’s degree between 1991 and 2010.
The normal minimum period is 2-7 years of full-time study for the Doctoral program and students must complete courses of no less than 30 credits, including 12 credits for the thesis. Every year about 4 to 5 candidates are admitted to the program, and 18 students have successfully completed their study since 2005. These students were graduates from Departments of Chinese medicine, schools of post baccalaureate Chinese Medicine, medical colleges, colleges of technology, polytechnics or related departments of colleges/institutes of agriculture.