MSTP at Mayo Clinic Rochester

Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester MN

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Abstract

Enter the text here that is the new abstract information for your application. This section must be no longer than 30 lines of text. The mission of the Mayo Clinic Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) is to train clinician-scientist leaders of the future. Our program is designed to mentor trainees whom we individually guide on their journeys to develop technical, operational, and professional skills to support a productive career in which they integrate research and clinical activities to advance biomedical science. In order to fulfill our mission of developing future clinician-scientist leaders, we propose four measurable objectives that will serve as the foundation of our program: 1) To provide a fully integrated scientific and clinical training program that will help trainees develop the skills needed to recognize and address important clinical problems while simultaneously enabling our graduates to move easily between research and clinical environments; 2) To develop future leaders who possess the self-confidence and communication skills to share scientific concepts with colleagues and individuals at all scientific levels; 3) To encourage trainees to develop self-reflective skills that will lead to rigor in their own science and 4) To provide trainees with experiences that reflect their own long-term scientific goals in academia or other careers. This MSTP admits nine MD-PhD trainees per year from a pool of over three hundred applicants. Ninety-six carefully vetted and trained laboratory mentors will provide a safe learning environment and guide rigorous research. The co-Directors, Drs. Schimmenti and Kaufmann, have over thirty years of combined experience in MD-PhD leadership and are committed to the success and well-being of every trainee. Mayo Clinic’s three-part mission comprised of patient care, research, and education, provides a rich environment for training. The average time to degree for the last ten years of graduates is 8.18 years, with a mean of 4.3 first author papers per trainee and 8.7 total papers per trainee. Trainees are required to submit an F award or equivalent; and the success rate over the last ten years has been 58%. Trainees match well, with three of five trainees matching in physician scientist training programs in 2021. A self-reflective iterative evaluation process has been developed and implemented to support cycles of program improvement with goals to support rigor and reproducibility training, trainee retention, decreased time to degree, scholarship, and career satisfaction. The long-term goal of the program is to provide each dual degree graduate a firm foundation for a lifetime of career success in research and research related fields.