Our program integrates an outstanding research environment with a well-rounded, nationally acclaimed medical education. The NIH’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) has funded us continuously since 1977.
Your training begins the summer before your first year of medical school with a laboratory rotation of your choice and our Problem Solving in Biomedical Science course. Through lectures and collaborative problem solving, this course is designed to develop your analytical thinking skills and introduce you to current disease-oriented research problems.
After the summer course, you begin our integrated MD/PhD curriculum with our Biomedical Science for MD/PhDs course, which builds on the medical school curriculum using a series of lectures, tutorials, and graduate-level journal clubs.
Clinical experiences will be an important part of your curriculum from the very beginning. During your graduate school years, you may choose to carry out your thesis research in any of seven different multidisciplinary training areas:
Then, after defending your thesis, you’ll return to ISMMS for the last two years of clinical rotations—thereby completing your MD degree. To facilitate your transition back to the clinic, we offer a clinical refresher course, as well as a number of other clinical enrichment activities.