MD/PhD Program
If you are interested in a career in academic medicine as a physician scientist, this program may be ideal for you. It will prepare you to become a medical practitioner and faculty member at a university medical center where you will teach medical and graduate students, and, as a scientist, will be involved with biomedical research. After completion of the program, you will receive both the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees.CRITERIA FOR MD/PhD ADMISSION:
MCAT 30
GRE 1200
GPA 3.5
APPLICATION PROCEDURES:
The student applies simultaneously to the School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences with a complete application to each school as determined by the schools' criteria. The student indicates on each application that he/she is applying for the M.D./Ph.D. program and includes a one-page statement on the goals and reasons for interest in the program.
M.D./Ph.D. ADMISSION:
Students who have been admitted to the M.D./Ph.D. program begin graduate studies during the two summer sessions preceding their first year of admission into the medical school curriculum. During these summer sessions, major emphasis is placed on introduction to research with the goal of selecting an advisor and a research problem to be developed as the student's Ph.D. dissertation research.
Enrollment pattern after acceptance into the program:
| Year 1 | Year 2 | |
| 1st Summer | GSBS | GSBS |
| 2nd Summer | GSBS | GSBS |
| Fall | SOM | SOM |
| Spring | SOM | SOM |
At the end of the second year curriculum in the School of Medicine, students in this program defer continuation in the medical school curriculum and devote full-time enrollment toward completion of requirements for the Ph.D. degree. A "typical student" will require three years to complete these requirements depending on the nature of the research problem. During the student's last year in the graduate program, he/she may elect to audit certain portions of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course in anticipation of entering the clinical clerkships.
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