Opened in March 1988, the Ajou School of Medicine celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and is geared to take a step further by opening the graduate medical school in 2009. 

The Ajou School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Medicine aim to produce medical doctors and specialists who take an active role at the global level based on their medical and scientific knowledge and cultivate medical scientists who can predict new diagnosis, treatment, and disease based on their medical expertise and disease mechanism. Also, the schools aim to cultivate medical leaders in various fields and world-class medical professionals with visions. 

To this end, the Ajou Graduate School Medicine plans to operate the two programs described below.

As a professional medical degree program for the cultivation of medical doctors,
the 4-year program provides various mandatory courses including basic medical education, clinical medical education, and humanities and social sciences education the students should complete after their undergraduate work. The courses on humanities and social sciences are offered at various levels for the first time in Korea to maximize educational effects.

The MD-PhD program aims to produce leaders in the BT industry with competence in medical knowledge, knowledge and skills in basic science based on their capacity to tackle disease through scientific mindsets, scientific research methodology, and scientific data analysis. As a specialized program that combines the professional degree program and academic degree program, the MD-PhD program expects to produce over 10 percent of the medical school graduates each year.

The Ajou Medical School aims to cultivate medical professionals with character and the capacity to lead Korea's health care with respect for humans in a rapidly changing medical environment. Also, it trains students to lead the world in their professional fields.