Mission statement: To train a diverse pool of physician-scientist leaders who can accelerate rigorous basic, translational, clinical and multidisciplinary research to advance the understanding, detection, treatment and prevention of human disease.
Approaches:
- Develop effective and innovative MD-PhD training that integrates research and clinical training with early and deep engagement in research to develop, support, sustain and retain trainees in the physician-scientist pipeline.
- Recruit, train, and support students of diverse backgrounds, and foster an inclusive training community.
- Develop supportive advising and an efficient curricular approach to promote student progression, timely completion of the program, and long-term attainment of student goals for physician-scientist careers.
- Foster mentor development and training to provide better mentorship to students.
- Build a community of faculty, students, and staff that supports students throughout their training and offers a network of career-long colleagues.
- Develop collaborations between ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, University Hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth, and the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Hospital to allow access to diverse mentors and environments for clinical and research training.
Program Values:
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
- Support and develop diversity with an inclusive and welcoming MSTP community. We value diversity in many dimensions, including race, ethnicity, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability.
- Foster an inclusive and welcoming program.
- Support disadvantaged and disabled students.
Student mental health and wellbeing:
- We value student mental health and wellness throughout the diverse challenges of the training program.
- We value and encourage a healthy work life balance.
Professional development:
- Develop data-driven rigorous scientific skills and intellectual curiosity.
- Willingness to collaborate in team science.
- Diversity of current and future work and life experiences.
- Top notch clinical training in diverse academic and community environments.
- Train students in the process of grant writing and support fellowship awards.
- Networking throughout training.
Characteristics and elements:
- Intellectual curiosity
- Innovation
- Leadership
- Empathy
- Community engagement
- Listening to alternative viewpoints.
- Commitment to improve our world through science and medicine.
- Integration and collaboration
- A drive to achieve: use the opportunities we have been given to advance science and medicine.
- Balance self-respect and professional drive with humility.
- Respect for others: colleagues, peers, trainees, patients – those above and below us.