Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering MST Program

描述(由申请人提供)： 三所医学博士项目是由康奈尔大学威尔医学院(WCMC)、洛克菲勒大学(RU)和斯隆-凯特琳研究所(SKI)联合开展的，旨在培养生物医学研究人员，他们对生物医学科学有深入的了解，掌握当代研究技能，但以人类生物学、病理生物学和临床医学为基础，因此有能力将基础研究的进展转化为对人类疾病的理解、预防和治疗。这三个机构经营着两个研究生院，即康奈尔大学医学研究生院(WGS，WCMC和SKI的联合项目)和俄亥俄州立大学；三个机构的医学博士方案成立于1991年，当时这三个机构运营的两个独立的医学博士项目--WCMC-RU方案和WCMC-WGS方案--组成了目前的方案。 本申请书要求提供资金，以便在第30年后继续在这三个机构进行医学博士培训(其前身WCMC-RU方案成立于1972年；自1974年以来一直由国立卫生研究院资助)。MSTP学员完成WCMC医学博士学位的所有要求。他们在三个研究机构的研究实验室接受博士培训，并从RU或WGS获得学位。三所院校的医学博士项目汇集了250个独立研究实验室的教师。已有200多名医学博士毕业于三所学院及其前身的医学博士项目；目前该项目有99名学生。目前的学员来自32所本科学校，其中超过50%来自6所学校(哈佛、耶鲁、普林斯顿、斯坦福、布朗和康奈尔)。平均GPA为3.74，MCAT综合得分为36分。 被录取的受训人员将于7月初抵达，之后才开始医学院教育。在该项目的头两年，他们完成了医学院的课程，他们还参加了专门为医学博士学生设计的研究生水平的课程，并在三个不同的实验室完成了三次研究轮换，然后才进入论文实验室。当学生选择一个研究实验室时，他们就会进入与他们的论文导师相关的研究生院。学生必须满足他们研究生院的具体论文要求，但他们可以交叉注册并在其他研究生院选修课程以获得学分。在他们的研究训练结束后，在他们为他们的论文辩护之后，学生们回来完成他们在WCMC的临床训练。 该方案提供的培训的质量可以通过以下事实来判断：80%的前几个方案的毕业生现在都是全职学术职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program is a joint undertaking by Weill Medical College of Cornell University (WCMC), The Rockefeller University (RU), and the Sloan-Kettering Institute (SKI) to train biomedical investigators who have advanced understanding of biomedical science and mastery of contemporary research skills, and yet are grounded in human biology, pathobiology and clinical medicine, and thus are equipped to transfer advances in basic research to the understanding, prevention, and treatment of human disease. The three institutions operate two graduate schools, Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences (WGS, a joint undertaking between WCMC and SKI) and RU; the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program was formed in 1991, when two independent MD-PhD Programs operated by the three institutions, the WCMC-RU Program and the WCMC-WGS Program, were joined to form the present program. The present application requests funds to continue MD-PhD training at the three institutions beyond the 30th year (the predecessor WCMC-RU Program was formed in 1972; it has had NIH funding since 1974). MSTP trainees complete all the requirements for the MD degree at WCMC. They get their PhD training in the research laboratories in three research institutions, and receive their degree from either RU or WGS. The Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program brings together faculty in -250 independent research laboratories. More than 200 MD-PhDs have graduated from the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program and its predecessors; currently there are 99 students in the Program. The current trainees come from 32 undergraduate schools, with more than 50% coming from six schools (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Brown, and Cornell). The average GPA is 3.74 and the combined MCAT score is 36. Accepted trainees arrive in early July before the start of the medical school education. During the first two years in the program they complete their medical school coursework, they take additional graduate level courses designed specifically for MD-PhD students, and they complete three research rotations, in three different laboratories, before they settle into their thesis laboratory. When the students choose a research laboratory, they enroll in the graduate school with which their thesis mentor is associated. The students must satisfy the specific thesis requirements of their graduate school, but they can cross register and take courses for credit in the other graduate school. At the end of their research training, after they have defended their thesis, the students return to complete their clinical training at WCMC. The quality of the training provided by the Program can be judged by the fact that 80% of the graduates of the predecessor programs are now in full-time academic positions.