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A Happy Medium: Five-year Research MD Programs

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Stephanie T. Weiss, Ph.D., Cleveland Clinic

Although many student physician scientists enroll in MD/ PhD programs, there are also five-year programs that award research MD and/or MD/MS degrees. These programs are ideal for students who want to be researchers, but who do not want to complete an entire PhD. One such program is the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, located in Cleveland, OH. CCLCM is a joint program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (www.clevelandclinic.org/cclcm). The 32 students in each CCLCM class are officially Case students, but we have our own curriculum that is for the most part independent of the main Case medical school program.