MD PhD Programs

Yale University

• Yale University began receiving MSTP funds in 1969. The M.D.-Ph.D. program at this prestigious Ivy League institution focuses on training students in human biology. Over 90 percent of the school's M.D.-Ph.D. graduates are involved in peer-reviewed research projects. There are nearly 90 students in the program and they make up 12 percent of the overall medical school class.

  Yale M.D.-Ph.D. Program Office
  367 Cedar Street
  Room 316 ESH
  New Haven, CT 06510
  203-785-4403
  www.med.yale.edu

University of Pennsylvania

• The medical scientist program at the oldest medical school in the United States, the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the largest in the country. Penn's program, founded in 1969, enrolls over 150 students out of the overall medical school class. Students can choose from eleven different specialties including bioengineering, anthropology and health care management. Penn is the number one medical school recipient of funding from the National Institutes of Health.

  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  Suite 100, Stemmler Hall
  Philadelphia, PA 19104-6087
  215-898-8025
  www.med.upenn.edu

Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• The resources of the Harvard Medical School and the science facilities of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are available to students who earn admission into the M.D.-Ph.D. program offered by these two highly-selective schools. Students enrolled in the Harvard-MIT partnership program can choose between two tracks: basic sciences and social sciences. Basic science students begin their studies in disease and biomedical research during the summer before the first year of medical school. Social science students are trained to be leaders in areas of science like health policy and medical anthropology. There are approximately 150 students in the MSTP-funded program.

  Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Daniel C. Tosteson Medical Education Center
  260 Longwood Avenue, Suite 168
  Boston, MA 02115
  617-432-0991
  www.hms.harvard.edu

University of California, San Francisco Medical School

• The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical School is one of only two institutions in the country ranked in U.S News & World Report's 2010 lists of top five schools for both primary care and research. This public health science research institution encourages students in its M.D.-Ph.D. program to complete a ten-week laboratory rotation at the school during the summer before the first year of medical school. There are nearly 90 students in the program.

  University of California, San Francisco
  Medical Scientist Training Program
  533 Parnassus Avenue, Room U-583
  San Francisco, CA 94143-0662
  415-476-4423
  www.medschool.ucsf.edu