医学博士/生物医学工程哲学博士

培训在生物医学和工程环境中都舒适的多学科专业人员
The McMaster MD/PhD program enrolled its first student in 2007 and was developed to help fill the need for clinician-scientists within the health care research environment in Canada and to engage McMaster graduate programs and faculty in meeting this goal. Clinician-scientists have a nuanced understanding of important patient-relevant clinical questions and research methodology, and are in a unique position to rapidly direct research programs to address pressing clinical problems and translate these findings into clinical practice. As an important pathway to a clinician-scientist career, a combined MD/PhD program allows for efficiency and integration in training and has been demonstrated to be effective at helping to develop active and successful medical researchers.<br><br>When the MD/PhD program at McMaster University was developed, Ontario had only two MD/PhD programs a longstanding and well-established program at University of Toronto and a relatively new and fledgling program at Western University. Today, there are five MD/PhD degree programs in Ontario: University of Toronto, McMaster University, Western University, Queens University and University of Ottawa, which comprise nearly half of the MD/PhD programs in Canada. McMaster now admits three students per year. The McMaster MD/PhD Program initially accepted interested and successful MD applicants into a dual degree in Medicine along with a PhD in either the Biochemistry or Medical Sciences Graduate Programs. The MD/PhD program has now expanded the number of eligible graduate programs beyond the original two graduate programs of Biochemistry and Medical Sciences to now include: Health Research Methodology, Health Policy, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Biology.