Program Description

The Feinberg School of Medicine and The Graduate School offer the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) leading to the combined MD/PhD. The seven- to eight-year program is designed to prepare selected students for careers in biomedical research or academic medicine coupled with the clinical practice of medicine. It is a flexible program that permits the efficient and natural combination of medical and scientific training for highly motivated students of superior research potential. The full range of biomedical research opportunities at the University is available to MSTP students, with primary oversight by the life sciences graduate programs. MSTP students typically complete two years of the medical curriculum, followed by three or more years of research training, with the production of a doctoral dissertation to fulfill the requirements for the PhD degree. Students then return to the medical curriculum to complete one and one-half years of hospital-based clinical clerkships.