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Leon E. Rosenberg, MD

JAMA. 2008;300(10):1208-1209.

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In 1964, the legendary director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), James Augustine Shannon, convinced Congress to authorize the creation and funding of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP).¹ Following peer review, the first awards were made to 3 academic medical centers. The goal of the MSTP was (and is) to encourage training of physician-scientists by providing NIH funds to institutions and by offering full scholarships to a small group of unusually committed medical students interested in pursuing MD and PhD degrees in parallel.

From this seed, a large forest has grown. Today, 40 MSTP programs at 45 degree-granting institutions are funded by the NIH.² Even more notable, about 75 additional medical schools have MD/PhD programs self-funded from a variety of institutional sources.³ Thus, almost all allopathic medical schools in the United States have dual-degree programs. These programs were meant to be small and elite, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

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