Didnt get into Medical School? Consider a MS/PhD in Biochem at Rush?
This is an open letter from Tom Schmid, Director of Graduate Education for the Department of Biochemistry at Rush University in Chicago.
As graduation is quickly approaching, have you considered graduate school? We have a few positions left in our graduate program. We have both a MS program (2 years, research thesis, students pay tuition, no stipend), and a PhD program (4yrs+, students receive stipend $24,000 and tuition scholarship). The research focus of our department is on Arthritis and many of the students work on human tissues. We have a NIH training grant to train graduate students to do arthritis-related research. Over this time about one quarter of our students that receive their PhD go on to medical school afterward. Rush University is a small academic institution, but it set in a large medical center with a huge patient base. In our academic medical center we have a close working relationship between basic science faculty and clinicians. The Department of Biochemistry collaborates on many research projects with the Departments of Orthopedic Surgery (ranked 10th in US by US News), Rheumatology, Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology.
We have had about 5 students from UIUC successfully complete our PhD program and are great students.
Interested? www.rush.edu go to “University”, then to “The Graduate College” and then to the “Division of Biochemistry”
Please contact:Tom_Schmid@rush.edu