Which NIH Ph.D. partnerships are best for MD/PhD students?
Students can combine MD training with any of the NIH institutional partnerships or individual partnerships. Typically students arrange an individual Ph.D. partnership with the Ph.D. granted by a department at the student’s medical school or enroll in an institutional partnership with fewer Ph.D. course requirements. The programs granting a European D.Phil. (Karolinska, Oxford, and Cambridge) are highly compatible with medical school due to their streamlined structure and minimal coursework requirements. Discipline-specific NIH Institutional Partnerships at medical schools such at University of Pennsylvania (Immunology), New York University (Structural Biology), Neuroscience (Brown University), and Bioinformatics (Boston University), may also be eligible to do their Ph.D.
