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Hi Everyone! I originally posted this in the PharmD forum, but I figured you guys might have some valuable input too. I would have posted it sooner, but I didn't know there was a research side to the forum. Plus this forum is labeled physician scientist. Although not a medical student I'm a PharmD/PhD student-and this is the closest I've found as far as an appropriate forum.
"This Fall I started my first year of pharmacy school at UNC. The people I've worked with so far have been amazing. The summer before school started I was able to do research with one of the labs at the pharmacy school. In addition to the normal laboratory research my PI allowed me to continue some of the independent research I did in undergrad. I decided at that point that I wanted to look into a PharmD/PhD.
The problem is my school doesn't offer a "formal" combined program. What we have is more of a "combined-curriculum" type program. With this the PharmD classes I take will count as PhD electives and the PhD classes I take will satisfy the PharmD electives. Because my school does not allow students to enroll in two programs at the same time, I have to complete my PharmD (with PhD classes embeded in my course load), and then I do "formally apply" for the PhD and I am mainly just required to do a discertation.
As they are letting me work on independent research (which is a releated tangent) on the side in addition to the primary lab projects I would feel better if I were able to bring funding into the lab.
I am not eligible for most of the NIH fellowships as I am a PharmD student and not technically a PhD student. Furthermore many research programs prohibit Med and Pharm students from applying. The rationale behind which is that PharmDs are clinicians first and foremost.
As I also I have a deep interest in clinical aspects of my degree as well, I examined programs like the "Howard Hughes Medical Scholars Program" to find that many of them are mainly wanting medical students rather than pharmacy students.
I went to the UNC School of Medicine website to compare resources. I found out that not only do they have I combined MD/ PhD program, but they have funding sources available for students who are going after the MD alone (http://www.med.unc.edu/rschofc/omsr/).
Have any of you had similar experiences? Is research funding available for PharmD students?"
"This Fall I started my first year of pharmacy school at UNC. The people I've worked with so far have been amazing. The summer before school started I was able to do research with one of the labs at the pharmacy school. In addition to the normal laboratory research my PI allowed me to continue some of the independent research I did in undergrad. I decided at that point that I wanted to look into a PharmD/PhD.
The problem is my school doesn't offer a "formal" combined program. What we have is more of a "combined-curriculum" type program. With this the PharmD classes I take will count as PhD electives and the PhD classes I take will satisfy the PharmD electives. Because my school does not allow students to enroll in two programs at the same time, I have to complete my PharmD (with PhD classes embeded in my course load), and then I do "formally apply" for the PhD and I am mainly just required to do a discertation.
As they are letting me work on independent research (which is a releated tangent) on the side in addition to the primary lab projects I would feel better if I were able to bring funding into the lab.
I am not eligible for most of the NIH fellowships as I am a PharmD student and not technically a PhD student. Furthermore many research programs prohibit Med and Pharm students from applying. The rationale behind which is that PharmDs are clinicians first and foremost.
As I also I have a deep interest in clinical aspects of my degree as well, I examined programs like the "Howard Hughes Medical Scholars Program" to find that many of them are mainly wanting medical students rather than pharmacy students.
I went to the UNC School of Medicine website to compare resources. I found out that not only do they have I combined MD/ PhD program, but they have funding sources available for students who are going after the MD alone (http://www.med.unc.edu/rschofc/omsr/).
Have any of you had similar experiences? Is research funding available for PharmD students?"
