"MSTP" stands for "Medical Scientist Training Program." It's a combined MD and PhD degree. So you're going to learn all the clinical science, clinical reasoning that you get with medical school, treating patients, as well as a really rigorous research career as well as you pursue a PhD and one of the labs here at NYU.
Our medical school curriculum allows students to get clinical training prior to entering their PhD training. And this allows them to tailor their research training to match their clinical interests.
When I first moved here, I was so nervous, I didn't really know what to expect in such a huge city, I expected to feel really overwhelmed. But what's really nice about the MSTP is that you've got about 10 other friends feeling the exact same way as you and we're all in it together. And so even though there is such a big city, it kind of creates a really cool landscape for us to get to know each other through different events.
Our MSTP retreat occurs every year, and is an opportunity both to invite a speaker from either outside NYU, or one of our own faculty, and then for our students to present the research they've done over the past few years.
And so it's a really cool point to like, as an early student, see what the program still has to offer you in the next five, six years. And as I've heard from the older students, a really cool place to reflect and see on how much you've come.
The MSTP runs a series of summer seminars, which allow students to meet faculty on campus which will help them decide where to rotate and ultimately where to do their PhD. We have alumni speakers that are brought in to talk about their career trajectory.
You get paired with clinical faculty members in your classes, and they do a lot of one-on-one mentoring with you in small groups. We have really great administrators that are here to support our students. And so that's where a lot of support gets felt, whether it's through things for the medicine side or even through the research and even with creating like a social community too.
