, and the Sloan-Kettering Institute comprise a tri-institutional group of world-renowned biomedical research institutions on contiguous campuses. Students in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program command two complementary skills: advanced understanding of biomedical science and research, and outstanding grounding in human biology and clinical medicine. Students experience the excitement of modern biomedical science through a rigorous, yet flexible, specially tailored course of study and unrestricted access to experienced mentors in leading research laboratories.The faculties at Weill Cornell, Rockefeller, and Sloan-Kettering are among the most distinguished medical and biomedical scientists in the world, including numerous Nobel laureates. The three institutions are the home for more than 35 members of the National Academy of Sciences. The size of the graduate faculty ensures that there is broad expertise in all of the major biomedical research disciplines. The quality and size of the Program faculty and the limited number of students in the Program ensure that the students will receive outstanding research training as well as substantial contact with their advisors and other faculty members.
The Program consists of three parts:
- Two years of medical school education, including two year-long graduate level courses (Frontiers in Biomedical Science I & II) and complete three research rotations (in three different laboratories, in at least two different research institutions).
- At least three years of graduate education and original research to satisfy the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. Students take two semester-long graduate courses and complete other formal requirements (defend a thesis proposal or present a research proposal and eventually write and defend their thesis).
- A final clinical year when students follow the third year medical school curriculum plus additional clinical training depending on their interests.
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