SMU is collaborating with graduate medical school Duke-NUS to nurture doctors who are also skilled in areas such as law, business and computing. Both institutions signed an agreement on February 28. Students will pursue a four-year undergraduate bachelor's degree at SMU and gain conditional admission to Duke-NUS' Doctor of Medicine (MD) programme, which will run over another four years. SMU Provost Professor Timothy Clark said, "Increasingly, societal challenges have become multi-dimensional and solutions are often to be found at the intersections of different disciplines."