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National Association of MD/PhD Training Program Directors

Aspen, Colorado
July 15 and 16, 2001

Conference Agenda

Sunday, July 15
8:30 AM
WELCOME-OPENING REMARKS
8:45 - 10:00
PLENARY ADDRESS:
Marvin Cassman
, Director, NIGMS
10:00-10:30

Di Fang (AAMC)
"Report of AAMC Outcomes Study"
(PDF, 18 pages, 132KB)

10:45-11:15

Rick McGhee (Mayo) and Brian Sullivan (Wash U.)
Report on MD/PhD Programs' admissions statistics for 1998-2001
General discussion on developing a means to accurately assess the national pool of MD-PhD applicants

11:30-12:00 PM

Pam Cranston (AAMC)
Report on MCAS-MD/PhD web application's first year and the future of the common web secondary MD/PhD application

12:00-1:00

Admissions issues-rules of the road for MD/PhD Programs and their relationship to the policies and rules of the AAMC

1:00-2:00

Lunch (with students and administrators)

2:00-5:00

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
A) Recruitment of underrepresented individuals to MD/PhD Programs
B) Determining essential information obtainable from data of the AAMC Outcomes Study
C) Assessing the impact and uniqueness of the MD/PhD Program on the careers of physician-scientists
D) Common web secondary MD/PhD application
E) Admissions issues-continued from Noon general discussion
F) Assessing the national pool-determination of essential data-continued from am general discussion

Monday, July 16

 

9:00-9:15

Clayton Wiley (Pittsburgh)
Reports on survey of MD/PhD Program operational budgets-

9:15-10:30

Report from the Directors' Breakout Groups and the Administrators' discussion of the recruitment of women and minority individuals to MD/PhD Programs

10:45-12:00

Continuation of Reports of Breakout Groups

12:00-1:00

BUSINESS MEETING
Passing of Gavel from Paul Insel to Betsy Ross
Plans for next year's meeting

1:00 pm

ADJOURNMENT

 

 

 

 

 


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