T32GM149364

Medical Scientist Training Program - Project Summary

The mission of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) is to train physician-scientists who will become leaders in biomedical research to understand, detect, treat, and prevent human disease. To accomplish this mission, we have three goals.

Goal 1: To recruit a diverse group of students with outstanding potential to become research-active physician-scientists.

Goal 2: To provide training in an inclusive, safe, and stimulating learning environment where students can acquire the foundational knowledge and the technical, operational, and professional skills necessary to pursue a career as a research-active physician-scientist and a leader in academic medicine and/or biomedical research.

Goal 3: To support/facilitate their professional development to transition to the next stage in the training continuum.

Through a holistic admissions process, we seek to identify individuals with the intelligence, curiosity, creativity, resilience, perseverance, and enthusiasm for science that is essential for a successful research career. We guide the students through a program tailored to meet their individual needs and interests.

The program provides rigorous, integrated medical and research training through a flexible, continuously evolving curriculum. This curriculum includes specialized MSTP courses and the integration of graduate and medical school curriculum in the first two years and throughout the program.

The training program has three phases. In the first two years, students take a combination of medical, graduate, and MSTP-specific courses to gain the didactic foundation for their research and clinical training. Research rotations and guidance from program leadership assist them in thesis lab selection.

In the program's second phase, students perform independent, original research under their mentor's guidance. They publish their discoveries in high-quality, peer-reviewed papers and prepare and defend a PhD thesis. Participation in a PhD phase MSTP-run outpatient clinic builds clinical skills.

In the final phase, students complete their clinical training. A multifaceted approach trains students to perform rigorous and reproducible research in a responsible, ethical manner.

Currently, the program has 113 trainees, with 41% women, 28% from groups underrepresented in medicine (twice the percentage in the applicant pool), and 11% with disabilities. We will expand to approximately 120-130 trainees by increasing the entering class size to 16.

Since its inception in 1964, as one of the first three NIH-funded MSTPs, 484 trainees have graduated. Of these, 413 have completed postgraduate training and published over 19,000 papers, an average of approximately 47 papers per graduate. 74% have jobs at academic medical centers, research institutes, NIH, or pharmaceutical companies. By various measures, the graduates have achieved outstanding success and advanced biomedical research and academic medicine.

We propose to further integrate graduate and medical training and increase opportunities for involvement in clinical and translational research to prepare a future generation of physician-scientists who will be at the leading edge of biomedical research. Our ultimate goal is to improve human health and reduce the burden of disease.

Albert Einstein College Of Medicine

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES (NIGMS) SUPPORTS BASIC RESEARCH THAT INCREASES OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND LAYS THE FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCES IN DISEASE DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION. NIGMS ALSO SUPPORTS RESEARCH IN SPECIFIC CLINICAL AREAS THAT AFFECT MULTIPLE ORGAN SYSTEMS: ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PERI-OPERATIVE PAIN, CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY ?COMMON TO MULTIPLE DRUGS AND TREATMENTS, AND INJURY, CRITICAL ILLNESS, SEPSIS, AND WOUND HEALING.? NIGMS-FUNDED SCIENTISTS INVESTIGATE HOW LIVING SYSTEMS WORK AT A RANGE OF LEVELSFROM MOLECULES AND CELLS TO TISSUES AND ORGANSIN RESEARCH ORGANISMS, HUMANS, AND POPULATIONS. ADDITIONALLY, TO ENSURE THE VITALITY AND CONTINUED PRODUCTIVITY OF THE RESEARCH ENTERPRISE, NIGMS PROVIDES LEADERSHIP IN SUPPORTING THE TRAINING OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS, ENHANCING THE DIVERSITY OF THE SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE, AND DEVELOPING RESEARCH CAPACITY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.

93.859 - Biomedical Research and Research Training

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) [HHS - NIH]

Bronx, New York 10461 United States

Single Zip Code

Medical Scientist Training Program (T32) (PAR-21-189)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 204% from $1,857,713 to $5,641,103.