Building on the innovative advising and support system created by Professor Doyle Graham, former Dean of Education at Duke School of Medicine in 1987, Duke-NUS has created the Duke-NUS College system. The Colleges focus on students' professional and personal development. They provide support, advice, and mentoring, and facilitate relationship building among students of different years. They also foster recreational opportunities and community service projects. The concept is that if students experience the benefits of a supportive community with one another and with their Masters and faculty associates, they will experience medical school as less isolating and will be better able to cope with the stresses and challenges of medical education. In turn, they will have a greater chance of maintaining and developing their idealism, empathy, and compassion, thereby becoming more capable and effective physicians.

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