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 MDPhD 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 MDPhD program allows for efficiency and integration in training and has been demonstrated to be effective at helping to develop active and successful medical researchers.When the MDPhD program at McMaster University was developed, Ontario had only two MDPhD 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 MDPhD degree programs in Ontario: University of Toronto, McMaster University, Western University, Queens University and University of Ottawa, which comprise nearly half of the MDPhD programs in Canada. McMaster now admits three students per year. The McMaster MDPhD 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 MDPhD 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.