Students from the Tri-Institutional summer programs and New York University's Program for Summer Students participated in an educational workshop.
Seventy-five students from the Tri-Institutional summer programs for undergraduate students and New York University's Program for Summer Students, participated in a June 16th workshop, "Tips on Preparing for and Applying to Medical School, Graduate School, and M.D.-Ph.D. Programs." Joel Oppenheim, Ph.D., senior associate dean for biomedical sciences and director of the Sackler Institute for graduate biomedical sciences at New York University School of Medicine, presented the well-attended workshop.
The Tri-Institutional summer programs, which include the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program's Gateways to the Laboratory Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School's ACCESS, Sloan-Kettering Institute's Summer Research Internship Program, and The Rockefeller University's SURF Program, have a distinguished record of preparing undergraduate students to become successful M.D.-Ph.D. and Ph.D. applicants. The Gateways to the Laboratory Program, founded by Dr. Carl Nathan, the R.A. Rees Pritchett Professor of Microbiology and professor of medicine, was the first program in the nation to focus specifically on preparing underrepresented minority students to become competitive applicants to M.D.-Ph.D. programs.
Dr. Joel Oppenheim
The Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program trains physician-scientists to be the next generation of leaders in biomedical research. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, The Rockefeller University, and the Sloan-Kettering Institute combine to form one of the few inter-institutional collaborations dedicated to joint M.D. and Ph.D. training.
Photos by Alan Arellano.