| The Essentials
 Overview
- 2 years of
preclinical/basic science coursework
Some courses will be taken for credit in the graduate school.
- Step I
United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE): To be taken by January 1 of the year following the completion of preclinical coursework and the beginning of clerkships.
- Up to 6 months of clinical clerkships
Students usually complete Internal Medicine I & II, Inpatient Pediatrics, OB/Gyn, and Psychiatry, many of which are prerequisites for participation in longitudinal care clinics during graduate school.
- 3 years or more of graduate studies
& research
Departmental requirements vary, but generally include
(1) 2-3 laboratory rotations (usually completed between 1st and 2nd year of medical school.
(2) Additional graduate coursework as needed.
(3) Qualifying Exam.
(4) Dissertation research and thesis defense.
*Students also participate in weekly, half-day logitudinal care clinics during graduate school. 3 different clinics fulfil requirements for the ambulatory, pediatrics outpatient, and primary care clerkships, respectively.
- 1 to 1 & 1/2 years of remaining
clinical clerkships:
(1) Internal Medicine I, II, & III (12 weeks).
(2) General Surgery (6 weeks).
(3) Surgical Subspecialties (6 weeks).
(4) Pediatrics (8 weeks).
(5) Psychiatry (6 weeks).
(6) Obstetrics & Gynecology (6 weeks).
(7) Clinical Neuroscience (4 weeks).
(8) Primary Care (4 weeks).
- Step II, USMLE:
To be taken by January 1 of the year in which a student
plans to graduate.
- GRADUATION.
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Stipend
In addition to tuition and health insurance coverage, MD/PhD students receive a stipend to supplement their living expenses. The level of stipend support for MD/PhD students is $20,976/yr for 2009 to 2010. Once a student affiliates with a graduate program and begins research in the laboratory full time, the school administration and department supplement the stipend level to that of a graduate student, which is $29,600/yr for 2009 to 2010.
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Research
Opportunities
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Ph.D. programs of interest to MD/PhD students
These programs (with the exception of EPH and History of Medicine) have joined together to form a new consortium called the Combined Programs in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS), which consists of interest-based tracks that serve to organize research and training activities and provide students with flexible opportunities to study with and conduct thesis research with any of the more than 200 biological science faculty involved. Other doctoral programs of interest to students are offered in Chemistry, Engineering, Psychology and Sociology. Students normally pursue the Ph.D. in one of the biological science departments, but students interested in taking the joint degree in another department may do so, provided they can work out in advance with the Director an approved program.
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Facilities
The training facilities for MD/PhD students are the classrooms and laboratories of the basic science departments of Yale University School of Medicine, as well as the science, engineering and other graduate departments of Yale University. In some cases, the laboratories and facilities in clinical departments are available because a significant number of clinical faculty hold joint appointments in one of the basic science departments in the School of Medicine and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Clinical training takes place in the clinical departments of the Yale School of Medicine, the inpatient and outpatient services of the Yale-New Haven Hospital, and in the inpatient facilities of the Yale Affiliated Hospitals.
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Libraries
Yale's general facilities for research and study include the University Library of more than eight million volumes, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the University Art Gallery, and the Center for British Art, as well as the extensive resources of the professional schools. The services of the Research Libraries Group (consisting of Columbia, Harvard, and Yale universities plus the New York Public Library) are also available to students.
Research facilities for the physical and biological sciences include the Bass Center for Structural Biology, the Kline Biology Tower, the Josiah Willard Gibbs Research Laboratories, the Osborn Memorial Laboratories, the Kline Geology Laboratory, the Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, the Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center, the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and of course the many laboratories in the School of Medicine, including the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine.
One of the most distinguished medical science libraries in the country, the Medical School Library has about 340,000 volumes and more than 2,400 current journals. Its collections cover the basic sciences as well as clinical medicine and its specialties, public health, nursing, dentistry, and related fields. Access to Medline and Current Contents via library terminals and personal computers is available to all graduate students. About 62,000 volumes are sources materials or supporting works in the famous historical collections. In addition, many departments of the School of Medicine maintain their own specialized libraries.
The Kline Biology Tower houses the Kline Science Library, the major anthropology, biology, biochemistry, and physics library on campus. Together with adjacent libraries in Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology and Geophysics, and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the library complex on Science Hill consists of approximately one million volumes.
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The
Yale Information Technology Services
The Yale Information Technology Services (ITS) is the University's central academic computing facility, providing research and instructional computing services for all members of the University community, as well as providing for the specific needs of the Medical Community (ITS Med).
The Biomedical Computing Unit at the School of Medicine provides expertise in molecular biologic and protein sequence analysis among other research uses. Every MD/PhD student automatically receives a University-supported personal mainframe account. ITS mainframe accounts provide access to large program libraries (software with documents explaining their use) for applications that include data analysis, database applications, simulation, modeling, and other specialized applications.
An especially noteworthy resource of Yale mainframes is access to the internet and local e-mail systems which link users at educational institutions around the world. In addition to microcomputer and mainframe facilities available to members of the University community, ITS provides an array of services to assist in every area of information processing, computing, and networking.
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