NIH MD/PhD Programs
This message is from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
We would like to remind you of opportunities for combined-degree training in the NIH MD/PhD Intramural Partnership Training Program . This innovative program allows MD/PhD students to obtain all or part of their research training in one of the more than one thousand biomedical research laboratories in the NIH intramural research program and maintain eligibility for medical school training at most of the MSTP-funded M.D./Ph.D. programs around the country.
For most students in this program, the Ph.D. is obtained from one of NIH’s graduate partnership Ph.D. programs (http://gpp.nih.gov). <a The NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Ph.D. Program has been particularly popular among students pursuing M.D./Ph.D. training at NIH. This accelerated doctoral program allows students to set up dual-mentored Ph.D. research projects involving laboratories at NIH and at either Oxford or Cambridge universities in England. This program is also compatible with holders of Rhodes, Marshall, Gates or other international scholarships to study in the U.K. The program has grown considerably, and we now have fifty MD/PhD students who are doing research at NIH in partnership with more than twenty medical schools across the country. Approximately forty of these students are in the NIH Oxford-Cambridge scholars program. Graduates have gone on to top residencies at institutions such as New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center and Children’s Hospital in Boston. While students are on our campus for their research, we have arranged for longitudinal preceptorships in our clinical center, the nation’s largest and most advanced research hospital.
Students applying to M.D./Ph.D. programs for Fall 2010 admission are eligible to apply for NIH partnership training in parallel with their current applications to medical schools. The free application can be accessed from the GPP web site. Applicants not currently enrolled in medical school should select track 1 of the NIH MD/PhD partnership training program in addition to their choice of Ph.D. program. The program web site explains the different training tracks supported by this program. This year’s application deadline is January 4, 2010.
We have a teleconference scheduled for Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 8 PM EST and other recruitment events this fall. Please direct your or your advisees’ inquiries and RSVP for the teleconference to a central email address we have set up for this purpose: mdphd@mail.nih.gov.
Sincerely,
Richard Siegel, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, and Acting Chief, Autoimmunity Branch, NIAMS
Chief, Immunoregulation Section
Director NIH MD/PHD partnership training program
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda MD 20892-1930
