| The Essentials
 Overview
- 2 years of
preclinical/basic science coursework
Some courses will be taken for credit in the graduate school.
- Step I
United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE): To
be taken by January 1 of the year following the completion
of preclinical coursework and the beginning of clerkships.
- Up to 6 months of clinical clerkships
Students usually complete Internal Medicine I & II,
Inpatient Pediatrics, OB/Gyn, and Psychiatry, many of which
are prerequisites for participation in longitudinal care
clinics during graduate school.
- 3 years or more of graduate studies
& research
Departmental requirements vary, but generally include
(1) 2-3 laboratory rotations (usually completed between
1st and 2nd year of medical school.
(2) Additional graduate coursework as needed.
(3) Qualifying Exam.
(4) Dissertation research and thesis defense.
*Students also participate in weekly, half-day logitudinal
care clinics during graduate school. 3 different clinics
fulfil requirements for the ambulatory, pediatrics outpatient,
and primary care clerkships, respectively.
- 1 to 1 & 1/2 years of remaining
clinical clerkships:
(1) Internal Medicine I, II, & III (12 weeks).
(2) General Surgery (6 weeks).
(3) Surgical Subspecialties (6 weeks).
(4) Pediatrics (8 weeks).
(5) Psychiatry (6 weeks).
(6) Obstetrics & Gynecology (6 weeks).
(7) Clinical Neuroscience (4 weeks).
(8) Primary Care (4 weeks).
- Step II, USMLE:
To be taken by January 1 of the year in which a student
plans to graduate.
- GRADUATION.
top
Stipend
In addition to tuition and health insurance coverage, MD/PhD
students receive a stipend to supplement their living expenses.
The level of stipend support for MD/PhD students is
$20,772/yr for 2004 to 2005. Once a student affiliates
with a graduate program and begins research in the laboratory
full time, the school administration and department supplement
the stipend level to that of a graduate student, which
is $25,000 /yr for 2004 to 2005.
top
Research
Opportunities
top
Ph.D. programs of interest to MD/PhD students
These programs (with the exception of Anthropology, EPH and
History of Medicine) have joined together to form a new consortium
called the Combined
Progams in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS), which
consists of interest-based tracks that serve to organize research
and training activities and provide students with flexible
opportunities to study with and conduct thesis research with
any of the more than 200 biological science faculty involved.
Other doctoral programs of interest to students are offered
in Chemistry, Engineering,
Psychology and
Sociology. Students
normally pursue the Ph.D. in one of the biological science
departments, but students interested in taking the joint degree
in another department may do so, provided they can work out
in advance with the Director an approved program.
top
Facilities
The training facilities for MD/PhD students are the classrooms
and laboratories of the basic science departments of Yale
University School of Medicine, as well as the science, engineering
and other graduate departments of Yale University. In some
cases, the laboratories and facilities in clinical departments
are available because a significant number of clinical faculty
hold joint appointments in one of the basic science departments
in the School of Medicine and in the Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences. Clinical training takes place in the clinical
departments of the Yale School of Medicine, the inpatient
and outpatient services of the Yale-New Haven Hospital, and
in the inpatient facilities of the Yale Affiliated Hospitals.
top
Libraries
Yale's general facilities for research and study include
the University Library of more than eight million volumes,
the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the University
Art Gallery, and the Center for British Art, as well as the
extensive resources of the professional schools. The services
of the Research Libraries Group (consisting of Columbia, Harvard,
and Yale universities plus the New York Public Library) are
also available to students.
Research facilities for the physical and biological sciences
include the Bass Center for Structural Biology, the Kline
Biology Tower, the Josiah Willard Gibbs Research Laboratories,
the Osborn Memorial Laboratories, the Kline Geology Laboratory,
the Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, the Becton Engineering
and Applied Science Center, the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory,
the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and of course the many
laboratories in the School of Medicine, including the Boyer
Center for Molecular Medicine.
One of the most distinguished medical science libraries in
the country, the Medical School Library has about 340,000
volumes and more than 2,400 current journals. Its collections
cover the basic sciences as well as clinical medicine and
its specialities, public health, nursing, dentistry, and related
fields. Access to Medline and Current Contents via library
terminals and personal computers is available to all graduate
students. About 62,000 volumes are sources materials or supporting
works in the famous historical collections. In addition, many
departments of the School of Medicine maintain their own specialized
libraries.
The Kline Biology Tower houses the Kline Science Library,
the major anthropology, biology, biochemistry, and physics
library on campus. Together with adjacent libraries in Astronomy,
Chemistry, Geology and Geophysics, and the School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies, the library complex on Science
Hill consists of approximately one million volumes.
top
The
Yale Information Technology Services
The Yale Information Technology
Services (ITS) is the University's central academic computing
facility, providing research and instructional computing services
for all members of the University community, as well as providing
for the specific needs of the Medical Community (ITS
Med).
The Biomedical Computing Unit at the School of Medicine
provides expertise in molecular biologic and protein sequence
analysis among other research uses. Every MD/PhD student automatically
receives a University-supported personal mainframe account.
ITS mainframe accounts provide access to large program libraries
(software with documents explaining their use) for applications
that include data analysis, database applications, simulation,
modeling, and other specialized applications.
An especially noteworthy resource of Yale mainframes is
access to the internet and local e-mail systems which link
users at educational institutions around the world. In addition
to microcomputer and mainframe facilities available to members
of the University community, ITS provides an array of services
to assist in every area of information processing, computing,
and networking.
MD/PhD Wiki
The
MD/PhD Wiki is a community based collection of folk wisdom about
being an MD/PhD student at Yale.
top |
|
