MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAM

医学博士/博士学位联合学位专为对医学研究和学术医学职业感兴趣的高素质、优秀学生而设计，是一个为期七年的强化课程，使学生能够获得可应用于人类疾病基础项目的研究能力和技能。该项目符合医学研究生院对医学博士学位的要求。联合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，并在比按顺序学习研究生和医学院所需的时间短的时间内完成两所学校的要求。该项目的前两年致力于完成基础医学课程，其中包括基于问题的学习、研究生研讨会项目、临床医学原理和美国医师执照考试（USMLE）的第一步。在接下来的三年中，学生们将在七个研究生课程之一进行研究生学习和博士论文：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。然后学生返回医学院完成临床培训。目前，联合学位课程有二十六名学生。这些学生是从竞争激烈的申请者库中挑选出来的。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.