Postgraduate Choices of Graduates From Medical Scientist Training Programs, 2004-2008
- Jason C. Paik, BADepartment of Cell Biology paik@uab.edu;
- George Howard, DrPHDepartment of Biostatistics;
- Robin G. Lorenz, MD, PhDDepartment of PathologySchool of MedicineUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
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To the Editor: There have been questions about the efficacy of Medical Scientist Training Programs (MSTPs) in training the next generation of physician-scientists.1,2 Although studies have identified postgraduate specialty choices of a subset of these students,3,4 to our knowledge none have generated data based on a complete evaluation of graduates from all MSTPs. To better understand postgraduate choices of all National Institutes of Health (NIH)–sponsored MSTP graduates, we conducted a census of graduates from 2004 to 2008.
Methods
Graduate placement data from NIH-sponsored MSTPs were collected from official program Web sites for 2004 to 2008. Preliminary match data were not collected if the graduate matched into a postgraduate year 2 residency program. If no such Web site was available, directors of MSTPs were surveyed for postgraduate choices of graduates from their program. Identifying information was removed from data, which were then analyzed for frequency of …
