I am a medical student interested in switching to track 2 partnership MD/PhD training. What should I do?
You should apply to one of the NIH Institutional Partnerships or arrange an Individual Partnership with a PhD program at your medical school and an NIH investigator. Additionally if you want to be considered for NIH partnership funding on your return to medical, you must apply to your MSTP program as an internal candidate. Currently, all medical schools funded by the MSTP allow this, other than U.C.S.F., the Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering tri-institutional program, and the University of Pennsylvania (with the exception of students in the NIH-U.Penn immunology GPP).
