Department News

Published Friday, April 21, 2006
Med program nets $2M
 
BY STEVEN SIEGEL
Staff Reporter

The combined M.D./Ph.D. program at the Yale School of Medicine has received a pledge for a $2 million bequest from an anonymous donor, program director Dr. James Jamieson said Wednesday.

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March/April 2006 Volume 2 Issue 2
$2 million gift will support training of physician-scientists

Of all the professions, learning medicine requires the greatest time commitment. After four years of medical school, doctors undertake at least three years of internship and residency before beginning their specialty training. At least two additional years are required to become a surgeon; if the career goal is heart surgery or neurosurgery, add two more years.

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James D. Jamieson, MD, PhDDr. Jamieson given a Teacher of the Year Award
 
Two Yale MD/PhD students invited to International Achievement Summit
The 45th annual International Achievement Summit will be held in Los Angeles, California, June 1-4, 2006.  It is an all-expense-paid weekend attended by 260 outstanding students from 50 countries and eminent leaders from the arts, sciences, business, and public service.  The 260 students include Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, Truman, Gates-Cambridge, and Goldwater Scholars; students from the Air Force, Navy and Army service academies; medical students from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins; political science students from Paris, London, Moscow and the U.S.; and law and business students from Vanderbilt, Chicago, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Penn State.

MD/PhD Awardees from Yale School of Medicine:  Aaron Berger and Adam Frost.
Aaron BergerAaron Berger
Experimental Pathology
Year in Program: 6
Mentor: David Rimm
Adam Frost Adam Frost
DEPARTMENT/GRADUATE PROGRAM: Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Year in Program:  6      
Mentor: Vinzenz Unger

 

 

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