Know any med students that got an NSF Fellowship?

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• Aug 5, 2006

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Hey,

I posted this on the Allo forum as well, with no response. I know that MD/PhD are almost always prohibited from getting the fellowship, but I figured I'd just ask anyway.

Thanks.

 

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• Aug 5, 2006

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Chris Benoit said:

Hey,

I posted this on the Allo forum as well, with no response. I know that MD/PhD are almost always prohibited from getting the fellowship, but I figured I'd just ask anyway.

Thanks.

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To my understanding, MD/PhD students are ALWAYS prohibited from receiving this particular fellowship.

 

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Read the application. NSF fellowships are specifically geared towards nonclinical research. If your proposal has nothing to do with medicine, then you may have a shot.

 

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Newquagmire said:

Read the application. NSF fellowships are specifically geared towards nonclinical research. If your proposal has nothing to do with medicine, then you may have a shot.

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While this is true, in my interpretation MD/PhD students are always outlawed from receiving this fellowship. The program announcement accessible at https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp/ contains the following on p.7 of the pdf:

"Categories of study that are always ineligible:
...joint science-professional degree programs (MD/PhD and JD/PhD) ..."

 

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but the OP is asking about "med students"...

 

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• Aug 10, 2006

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Newquagmire said:

but the OP is asking about "med students"...

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Yeah, I guess you're right. I just assumed from the rest of his post and the forum in which he posted that he was referring to MD/PhD students.

 

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There's one student in our program on NSF money -- his PhD will be in geography.

 

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• Aug 25, 2006

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Our school just received NSF funding for our MD/PHD program as a whole ...
but for minorities