Community & Mentoring

The most amazing thing about the Yale MD-PhD Program is the community of students, staff and faculty who are part of our program! The career of a physician-scientist is not easy, and our community helps each of us get through the difficult moments of this profession and joins together to celebrate successes big and small.

BRING an MD-PhD STUDENT to WORK DAY is a new initiative to give current MD-PhD students the opportunity to gain familiarity with different clinical specialties by shadowing Yale physican-scientists.

Physician-scientists from the among our alumni, MSTP faculty, Intraurban Clinical Club and Janeway Scholars have been invited to participate in this program as a clinical mentor to students who are currently in the PhD training phase. These students have completed the YSM pre-clerkship curriculum, 1-2 blocks of clerkship rotations, and are currently in the lab completing doctoral thesis research. Many have asked for opportunities to meet and shadow physician-scientists as a way to explore different (sub)specialties and build a network of clinical mentors by spending a half- or full day with faculty in various specialties and subpecialties at Yale.

MD-PhD students may access a Yale Tableau DASHBOARD using their CAS login credentials to find faculty whom they can join for clinic or in-patient attending services based on their availability.