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Contact Information: Physician Scientist Program Sanford School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota 414 East Clark Street Vermillion, SD 57069 phone: 605-677-6886 fax: 605-677-6381 mdphd@usd.edu Last Modified: 08/16/06 |
The most significant discoveries in medicine result from collaboration between the basic sciences and clinical medicine. Until recently, this effort has involved teams of medical doctors (MDs) partnered with PhD researchers. Now, the concept of physician scientist has attracted a considerable amount of attention. Physician scientists play a unique role in contemporary medical research, having received extensive training in both medicine and fundamental research. Physician scientists typically hold a combined MD/PhD degree. Approximately half of the medical schools nationwide offer the MD/PhD degree. Students entering these programs are among the best and brightest, with extremely high levels of motivation. Prior to the development of the physician scientist training program, students seeking the dual degree had to enroll in four years of clinical studies towards the MD degree in addition to the five to seven years of study needed for the PhD degree. In these separate programs, students earning the dual MD/PhD degree would require from nine to eleven years of study and would still not be properly prepared for a role as a physician scientist. The separate degree programs do not provide the integration skills that only a truly combined MD/PhD program provides. |
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