One such program did exist and it was very successful (see PUBMED):http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,2600-1;17585-3,00.html
Sorry, but you're over twenty years too late. Miami disbanded their program in 1987. The fastest track that I know of for PhD-to-MD is to go to Duke, where they only do one year of basic sciences and spend the third year doing research. If you come in with a PhD, they'll let you skip the research year and go straight to fourth year, so you'll finish in three years instead of four.
As a PhD who has finished the first two years of medical school, I agree with this completely. The focus in grad school is much narrower and does not cover anywhere close to all of the subjects that will be covered in medical school. I would guess that someone with a PhD in pathology would have the greatest curricular overlap. But even then, they'd still be missing huge chunks of the med school curriculum, including really important subjects like pharm, micro, etc.
His age is the least of his problems as far as making him competitive or not competitive for medical school. What he needs to do are the same things that everyone who wants to go to med school need to do: take any missing pre-reqs (generally one year each of gen chem, organic, physics, and bio each with lab); take the MCAT and ideally score 30+ on it; and get some sort of clinical experience. Time to prep for the MCAT will vary by the individual; the average is probably around 2-3 months, but some people will do much more or much less. Note also that some schools have additional course requirements (ex. English, calculus, biochem). These courses are not needed for MCAT prep, but he will need to take any additional courses required by his med school before he matriculates, even if he has already been accepted.
This is incredible info, that is perhaps not obvious when researching which MD schools to apply to...do you know if Duke still follows this system? I really appreciate you and your response! thanks
Yes, does anyone know the class size of the PhD to MD program at Columbia? It was started in 2013, and Unfortunately, the class size is not found online.
