Medical Scientist Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）提供了一个医学博士和博士培训相结合的计划，需要七到八年完成。MD/PhD学生的课程包括医学院和研究生院课程的主要部分，旨在最大限度地减少重复并提供综合的医生-科学家教育。学生可以自由探索各种各样的研究生学习机会，包括医学院的任何研究生课程，或生物工程，生物科学部门，或公共卫生学院或药学院的选定课程。该计划每年招收6名学生，目前总规模为42名学生。第一年需要支助4名学生，第四年和第五年增加到14名学生。 医生科学家对生物医学研究的价值得到了广泛的认可，因为需要制定计划来增加这类研究人员的数量。与其他医生相比，MD/PhD因其对床边问题的科学见解而脱颖而出，并成为医学进步的创新冠军。MD/PhD毕业生比没有医学教育的科学家对生物学的医学意义有更深刻的认识，对医学实践中的局限性有更全面的了解，并且有更大的能力将基本的科学进步转移到病人护理的进步上。因此，MD/PhD毕业生定位于识别和追求跨学科的方法来解决重要的生物医学问题，并帮助弥合基础和临床科学。MD/PhD课程是美国医生科学家的主要来源，可以说是通往此类职业的最佳途径。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) provides a program of combined MD and PhD training, requiring seven to eight years for completion. The curriculum for MD/PhD students includes the major portions of the medical school and graduate college curricula in a manner designed to minimize duplication and provide an integrated physician-scientist education. Students freely explore a wide range of opportunities for graduate study, including any of the graduate programs the College of Medicine, or in the departments of Bioengineering, Biological Sciences, or in selected programs in the School of Public Heath or the College of Pharmacy. The program recruits 6 students per year, and currently its overall size is 42 students. Support is requested for 4 students the first year, increasing to 14 students in years 4 and 5. The value of physician-scientists to biomedical research is widely recognized, as is the need for programs to bolster the number of such researchers. Compared to other physicians, MD/PhDs stand out for their scientific insight into bedside problems, and as innovative champions of progress in medicine. MD/PhD graduates have deeper perceptions of medical significance in biology than do scientists without medical education, more comprehensive understanding of the limitations in medical practice, and greater ability to transfer basic scientific advances toward patient care advances. Thus, MD/PhD graduates are positioned to identify and pursue interdisciplinary approaches to important biomedical problems, and to help bridge the basic and clinical sciences. MD/PhD programs are a major source of the nation's physician-scientists, and arguably provide the best route to such careers.