Medical Placement Eligibility and Documents

At a Glance

Pick the File Before You Collect Stamps

The most expensive document error is assembling the wrong stack. The English MBBS prospectus at 上海交通大学医学院 asks for a passport with six months’ validity, diploma and transcripts as originals or notarized copies, a high-school profile, English scores, CSCA in three sciences, a signed personal statement, two recommendations, a RMB 100,000 bank certificate, a physical examination form, a four-year police paper, the RMB 800 receipt, a birth certificate, and parents’ nationality papers. The English TCM bachelor at 上海中医药大学 asks for a passport advised at ten months, CSCA mathematics, English evidence of a different shape, a non-criminal-record paper, and a financial statement, filed only through apply.shutcm.edu.cn. Shaw’s elective asks for a form, a CV, and a university recommendation. Three stacks. A notary cannot fix the fact that you brought the wrong one.

Age and status change the stack again. Under 18 on 1 September 2026, the MBBS prospectus wants a guardian in mainland China. The TCM bachelor says under 60, with exceptions. The SHUTCM master’s says under 65, with exceptions. The joint PhD says under 40. The Shanghai Government Scholarship guide at 上海交通大学医学院 says 25, 35, and 40 by level. You can be eligible for one document and ineligible for another on the same birthday. Write the programme name at the top of the checklist.

Document No. 12 Is a School Gate, Not Our Advice

Both degree prospectuses cite Ministry of Education Document No. 12 of 2020. The MBBS page is the longer version we read. If you were born abroad to a Chinese-citizen parent, or you left Chinese citizenship, you must show when the foreign passport began and where you actually lived. The MBBS page uses 30 April 2022 and a two-year residence outside the mainland between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2026, with nine months able to count as a year, proved by stamps. It also asks for proof that Chinese household registration was cancelled, in the cases it lists. The TCM prospectus has its own nationality statement and entry-exit attachment covering travel since 30 April 2022. Read the attachment for the file you will send. DragonTrail does not decide whether you count as an international student. The university does, and a wrong declaration can void the offer later, which the MBBS page says in its own words when originals do not match.

A foreign passport alone is not the end of the test. The MBBS page says some applicants who hold one are still not treated as international students under the rule. Budget time for parents’ passports, old Chinese identity papers, and a full stamp history. Translations must be notarized if the paper is not already in Chinese or English, and the translation travels with the original. Emailed scans do not replace that for the SHUTCM portals, which refuse email applications.

A Hospital Asks Who You Are in Training, Not for CSCA

Shaw will not read your CSCA physics score. It will read your year of medical school or your profession. Final two years, or near the end of a nursing, pharmacy, or similar degree, or a resident the training page is willing to consider. The university elective page wants a transcript, a dean’s letter, a CV, a statement of what you want to learn, and the form. Partner-school students are told to start with the home coordinator. If that coordinator will not nominate you, the public page does not offer a workaround. Self-application exists on that page and can be denied if the process is incomplete.

Do not send the hospital your MBBS bank certificate and expect it to count as acceptance. Do not send DragonTrail clinical logs. For the hospital, the essential early papers are the ones the hospital named, sent to wangmy@srrsh.com or to the coordinator of the site you actually want, about six months before the dates. A police paper and a physical exam may be asked for later, especially if a visa needs them. The SJTU visa page says a physical report is required “if needed” for the visa and is required for X1 students and for X2 students staying over six months. That page is about SJTU students. Ask the host which exam you need rather than assuming the degree form is the visa form.

Money Papers and Health Papers Are Screens, Not Care

A bank certificate of RMB 100,000 or CNY 100,000 shows funds. It does not pay tuition. The MBBS tuition is RMB 75,000 a year on top of that certificate, and pre-admitted students must prepay within two weeks. The TCM application fee must arrive as CNY 450 after bank charges. The master’s fee is CNY 800 unless you are CSC Type A. Confusing the certificate with the payment is how offers lapse. Keep the receipt the school asks for. Unpaid MBBS applications are invalid, and the RMB 800 is not returned.

The physical examination form is an admissions and visa screen. The MBBS prospectus wants it from a public hospital, within six months, on the standard form. Scholarship applicants at both schools have extra forms. People with chronic illness are told by SHUTCM to disclose it and to ask the school if they are unsure they may enrol. Follow that instruction with the school. Do not send the form to DragonTrail for interpretation. We do not provide clinical advice, and a study guide must not tell you that you are medically fit. After arrival, SJTU’s visa page says X1 students and long X2 stays need an examination or verification in Shanghai, with a cost it describes as around RMB 500, or RMB 70 to 400 for verification, and a report after about four working days. Those figures are that page’s figures for its students.

A Perfect File Does Not Reopen a Closed Window

On 29 October 2026 the MBBS deadline of 30 April 2026, the TCM bachelor deadline of 30 June 2026, the master’s deadline of 15 May 2026, and the scholarship deadline of 31 July 2026 had all passed. CSCA dates did not render on www.csca.cn without JavaScript, so we cannot tell you the next sitting. A complete stack prepared in November 2026 is preparation for a prospectus that has not been published here, not an application to the closed one. The schools say they may change rules if the authorities change policy. The next PDF wins. Do not pay against the old one because your documents are finally ready.

Falsified papers are a named ground for refusal on the MBBS page, including after arrival when originals are checked. Notarized copies still have to match. A template letter that overstates your year of training will fail at the hospital as well, because the final-two-years rule is checked against the university letter, not against your email. We will not draft a letter that hides your year.

Lay the Papers Out by Contract

Make three piles if you are considering more than one route: degree, master’s or PhD, hospital request. On each pile, write the portal or the email, the fee, the language test, and whether the window is open. If a pile has no current prospectus, it is not an application yet. Bring questions about mismatches — ten months of passport versus six, IELTS 6 versus 6.5 versus 7 — to the school that will receive the file. Those mismatches are real across the pages we opened. They are not typos for us to smooth.

Request Guidance if you want help seeing which pile you are in. Find a Suitable Program if you are still choosing the route. Neither button notarizes a diploma or tells a university that you qualify. A licence question belongs on the recognition page, and documents for study are not that licence.

Sources

These pages were read on 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai). Tuition, language rules, and application windows change, and the 2026 windows on the school pages had already closed. A CUCAS card is CUCAS’s listing. The World Directory of Medical Schools did not return a directory page. The Campus China address named in a scholarship paragraph did not open. A hospital email printed by a university is that university’s contact. It is not a placement DragonTrail has confirmed, and it is not permission to examine a patient.

• 上海交通大学医学院 — 2026 English-taught Clinical Medicine (MBBS) prospectus, page time 2025-12-03 — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)
• 上海交通大学医学院 — visa and residence permit policy for international students — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)
• 上海中医药大学 — 2026 English-taught Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture) undergraduate prospectus, No. ENB2026900511 — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)
• 上海中医药大学 — 2026 master’s prospectus for international students, No. ENM2026900311 — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)
• 浙江大学医学院附属邵逸夫医院 — internal medical elective page (clinical observation and rotations) — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)
• 上海交通大学医学院 — Shanghai Government Scholarship guide (application window 1 January 2026 to 31 July 2026) — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)
• CSCA (www.csca.cn) — the address named by the school prospectuses. The page shell opened. Test dates did not render without JavaScript. — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)

FAQ

Related Study Routes

• Medical and Healthcare Study in ChinaDegree, short course, and hospital visit — kept apart.
• MBBS and Clinical Medicine DegreesThe six-year file and its tests.
• Clinical Electives for Medical StudentsA different file: year of training and a dean’s letter.
• Language Requirements for Clinical LearningWhich score belongs on which form.
• How To ApplyDocuments and the order of a study application.
• Find a Suitable ProgramHow study routes are organized. Not a seat in a medical school.