A few years back on SDN (2002) there were a few posts about people who were interested in obtaining their PhD during a residency program in some of the longer specialties (cardiology, etc.).
Does anyone have updates on programs or schools that do this, and how well does it work for the resident in terms of time for research in a surgery residency?
Thanks
Check out the APSA website, or look for the ABIM Research Pathway (there's similar deals in Path and Peds). General plan is 2 yrs clinic + 3yrs research + X yrs fellowship, where X depends on the fellowship. A/I a year, CC is 2, cards 3, so on. Caveat: If you don't have a PhD yet, you are expected to have a lot of research experience prior to applying to one of these programs.
There are many ortho and g-surgery programs that have a research year incorporated into their curriculum. N-surg usually have 2 years. I would expect that these programs (most are university-based) would be open to more years, and letting you get a PhD, if that's how your interests ran.
How do you get a basic science PhD in 3 years? No really, we all want to know so we can graduate our MD/PhD programs

I knew this one guy who graduated from his MD/PhD in
6 years.

He happened on a very productive lab and worked hard.
For most mortals, it probably would mean having a MS prior to starting the MD/PhD.