Overview
The Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) is one of the nation's oldest. From the start, our goal has been to train a diverse group of outstanding students to become future leaders of academic medicine and medical research. Continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1964, the Einstein MSTP has 516 illustrious Alumni with careers spanning the spectrum from basic science research to clinical medicine and many variations in between.
Today, the Einstein MSTP is still unique. Larger than most other MSTPs, it fosters a strong academic and social community within the college. While large enough to be an independent academic unit, the program is still small enough to provide students with the individual attention their unique careers require.
The MSTP recognizes that the successful physician-scientist training is not simply medical school
plus graduate
training. The program integrates MSTP-specific courses with medical and graduate courses, during the
first 18 months of
preclinical course work. Integration continues in the PhD thesis years through weekly involvement in
the MSTP Continuity
Clinic.
Students have outstanding publications and residency placements.
The Einstein MSTP encourages applications from all individuals. The College's Diversity and
Inclusion Strategic Plan for
Excellence states, "At Einstein, we value all people and perspectives that make us unique and
increase our diversity at
large. Consistent with its focus on social justice, Albert Einstein College of Medicine reaffirms
its commitment to
recruiting, retaining, and advancing individuals from historically underrepresented and marginalized
minority groups in
the scientific and medical professions. At the College of Medicine, this includes, (in no particular
order, and is not
limited to) women, individuals who are Black, Latino/Latina; Pacific Islander or indigenous
Americans; individuals from
new immigrant populations; individuals with both apparent and nonapparent disabilities; all sexual
and gender
minorities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual and queer people as well as transgender,
gender-nonconforming and
intersex individuals; religious minorities; and individuals from economically disadvantaged
backgrounds."
