PSTP Director
Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Pathology; Associate Director, Yale MD-PhD Program; Director, Internal Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program
The Department of Internal Medicine strongly encourages residents to consider academic careers in laboratory-based or patient-oriented research. Toward this end, our department encourages appropriate individuals to pursue the American Board of Internal Medicine Research Pathway. This pathway represents a “short track” into fellowship training as residents in this pathway complete only two rather than three clinical years of internal medicine residency. However, because this pathway requires three years of research training, it shortens training by a year only for those who plan to pursue intensive research training of this duration.
Yale's ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway (Physician Scientist Training Program; PSTP) with the Yale Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program involves “short tracking” into subspecialty training according the following sequence:
Yale offers clinical and research training in all subspecialties of Internal Medicine. Subspecialty fellows may choose research mentors in the Department of Medicine or in a variety of other departments and programs involved in basic, translational and/or clinical research. These include Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Genetics, Immunobiology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Pathology, Pharmacology, Vascular Biology and Transplantation, and the Yale Cancer Center.
Many residents who pursue the ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway have already had extensive research training (e.g. graduates of M.D.-Ph.D. programs). However, the ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway is also appropriate for residents strongly committed to research careers who have not had extensive prior research training. For these individuals, enrollment in the Investigative Medicine Program during subspecialty fellowship training offers the opportunity to receive formal graduate training in laboratory-based or patient-oriented investigation leading to the Ph.D. degree.
Resident applicants offered admission into the Yale ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway will be guaranteed:
Final acceptance into the Yale ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway will be contingent on excellence of PGY1 performance.
To learn more about how to apply to our program, please see the application information below.
For those students who are committed to post-residency subspecialty fellowship training with a major focus on a research career, we encourage you to consider our ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway which we offer as a training program within our Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program.
We encourage applicants with strong commitments to research careers to apply to Yale Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program's ABIM Physician-Scientist Residency Pathway 2-year training program at the time of application (see table below).
In addition to submitting an application through ERAS, applicants for Yale's ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway should send an email to Dr. Silvia Vilarinho, director of Yale's ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway, and Tatianna Hilton, administrative assistant, with the following information:
Applicants will be considered for admission to Yale's ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway through the NRMP Match. Please note that the Yale Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program now has three (3) training programs listed on the NRMP website (see table below); a categorical 3-year training program, a Preliminary 1-year training program, and the ABIM Physician-Scientist 2-year training program.
State | City | Program Name | ACGME ID | Training Program | NRMP No. |
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CT | New Haven | Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program | 1400821085 | Categorical 3-year | 1089140CO |
CT | New Haven | Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program | 1400821085 | Preliminary 1-year | 1089140PO |
CT | New Haven | Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program | 1400821085 | ABIM Physician-Scientist 2-year | 1089140C1 |
All applicants to Yale's ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway will also be considered candidates for the Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program's categorical 3-year training program. If you would like to be considered for both training program, please list them in your order of preference. If you match into Yale's ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway, you will be placed into the ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway training program when you arrive. If you match into the Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program for the categorical 3-year training program, you will be placed into the categorical training program when you arrive.
Applicants who have applied and then invited to interview for an ABIM Physician-Scientist Training Program position with the Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program participate in two (2) consecutive interview days: an ABIM Physician-Scientist Training Program applicant interview day with the subspecialty section followed by a categorical applicant interview day (see Internal Medicine Categorical). Tatianna Hilton schedules ABIM Physician-Scientist Training Program applicants.
This program has been invaluable to my training & development as a physician scientist.Ana Luisa Perdigoto, MD, PhD
The Yale PST made every possible effort to provide actual support to me in my dream to be a physician scientist—not merely with encouragement & pats on the back, but with large, dedicated resources & countless selfless hours of the program & my many mentors.Andrew Wang, MD/PhD
PSTP Director
Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Pathology; Associate Director, Yale MD-PhD Program; Director, Internal Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program
Dr. Silvia Vilarinho, Director