Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering MST Program

描述（由申请人提供）： 三机构MD-PhD项目是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）的联合项目，旨在培训对生物医学科学有深入了解并掌握的生物医学研究人员。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。 这三个机构经营两个研究生院，康奈尔大学医学研究生院（WGS，WCMC和SKI之间的联合事业）和RU;三机构MD-PhD计划成立于1991年，当时由三个机构，WCMC-RU计划和WCMC-WGS计划运营的两个独立的MD-PhD计划加入，形成了目前的计划。 目前的申请要求资金继续在三个机构超过30年的MD-PhD培训（前身WCMC-RU计划成立于1972年;自1974年以来一直有NIH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获得博士学位，并从RU或WGS获得学位。 三机构MD-PhD计划汇集了250个独立研究实验室的教师。 超过200名MD-PhD已经从三机构MD-PhD计划及其前身毕业;目前该计划有99名学生。 目前的学员来自32所本科院校，其中50%以上来自6所学校（哈佛、耶鲁、普林斯顿、斯坦福大学、布朗和康奈尔）。 平均GPA为3.74，综合MCAT分数为36。 接受的学员在医学院教育开始前的7月初到达。在该计划的前两年，他们完成了医学院的课程，他们采取专门为MD-PhD学生设计的额外研究生课程，并在三个不同的实验室完成三次研究轮换，然后才进入他们的论文实验室。 当学生选择一个研究实验室，他们在研究生院注册与他们的论文导师相关联。 学生必须满足其研究生院的特定论文要求，但他们可以交叉注册并在其他研究生院修读课程。 在他们的研究培训结束时，在他们答辩完论文后，学生们返回WCMC完成他们的临床培训。 该计划提供的培训质量可以通过以下事实来判断：80%的前身计划毕业生现在都在全职学术职位上。

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.