Ivy / top tier phd, if transfer is possible, must research be NIH already

[Poisson]

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Transfer is extremely rare, but multiple grad students who started md under mstp funding after years of study occurred in particular lab at certain school I love, was accepted to for phd, but am debating attending for interest in mstp. This school seemed way out of my reach, and am puzzled at admission. There is a policy where if ur advisor recommends you, that can initiate a transfer if accepted. If all stars fell into alignment which is not likely and I decided to go there and express interest, would advisor that put me on NIH project or NIH co mentor be a minimum pre req for consideration or could a student possibly be on an NSF or other funded medical project? Help to answer that later part of my questions would be if md phd mstp students work on non NIH research projects. If all else fails I am grateful for my acceptance and interest in research is number 1.

 

[mercaptovizadeh]

Transfer is extremely rare, but multiple grad students who started md under mstp funding after years of study occurred in particular lab at certain school I love, was accepted to for phd, but am debating attending for interest in mstp. This school seemed way out of my reach, and am puzzled at admission. There is a policy where if ur advisor recommends you, that can initiate a transfer if accepted. If all stars fell into alignment which is not likely and I decided to go there and express interest, would advisor that put me on NIH project or NIH co mentor be a minimum pre req for consideration or could a student possibly be on an NSF or other funded medical project? Help to answer that later part of my questions would be if md phd mstp students work on non NIH research projects. If all else fails I am grateful for my acceptance and interest in research is number 1.

what exactly is the question?

 

[Fencer]

In general, it is harder to transfer from PhD into MSTP as compared to from MD into MSTP. Your post was a stream of thought... please clarify it. Funding agency (NIH, NSF, DOD, VA, HHMI, etc.) is not as important as the topic and quality of the biomedical research.

 

[jjmack]

What I've heard, a lot of programs won't even consider PhD students for their MSTP.

In general, it is harder to transfer from PhD into MSTP as compared to from MD into MSTP. Your post was a stream of thought... please clarify it. Funding agency (NIH, NSF, DOD, VA, HHMI, etc.) is not as important as the topic and quality of the biomedical research.

 

[Poisson]

In general, it is harder to transfer from PhD into MSTP as compared to from MD into MSTP. Your post was a stream of thought... please clarify it. Funding agency (NIH, NSF, DOD, VA, HHMI, etc.) is not as important as the topic and quality of the biomedical research.

Thank you, this answered my questions.