MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAM

医学博士学位是为对医学研究和学术医学事业感兴趣的高素质、杰出的学生设计的，是一个七年制的强化课程，允许学生获得可应用于人类疾病基础课程的研究能力和技能。该项目符合医学研究生院对医学博士学位的要求。合并学位课程的目的是允许学生将研究生院和医学院的课程结合起来，并在比研究生和医学研究按顺序进行所需时间更短的时间内完成两所学校的要求。该计划的头两年致力于完成基础医学课程，其中包括以问题为基础的学习、研究生研讨会计划、临床医学原理和美国医生执照考试(USMLE)的第一步。在接下来的三年里，学生们将继续攻读七个研究生课程之一的研究生课程和博士论文-细胞生物学、发育生物学、免疫学、分子生物学和生物化学、神经科学、口腔生物学以及细胞和分子药理学。然后，学生们返回医学院完成临床培训。目前，这一合并学位项目共有26名学生。这些学生是从竞争激烈的申请者中挑选出来的。培训计划完全在康涅狄格大学健康中心及其附属医院进行。

Designed for highly qualified, exceptional students interested in careers in medical research and academic medicine, the Combined MD/PhD Degree is an intensive seven-year program that allows students to acquire competence and skills in research that can be applied to basic programs in human disease. The program meets the requirements of the Graduate School of Medicine for the Doctor of Medicine degree. The intent of the Combined Degree Program is to allow a student to combine the curricula of the Graduate and Medical Schools and complete the requirements of both schools in a period less than that required if the graduate and medical studies were taken in sequence. The first two years of the program are devoted to completing the basic medical science curriculum, which includes problem-based learning, the graduate seminar program, and the Principles of Clinical Medicine and Step I of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). During the next three years, the students pursue their graduate studies and PhD dissertation in one of seven graduate programs-Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Immunology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Neuroscience, Oral Biology and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology. The students then return to the medical school to complete their clinical training. Currently, there are twenty-six students in the combined degree program. These students are selected from a highly competitive applicant pool. The training program occurs entirely at the University of Connecticut Health Center and its affiliated hospitals.