MSTP | Graduate Outcomes

Time to Degree

On average, MSTP trainees complete both degrees in eight years.

Residency

Upon graduating from the program, almost all of our students choose to continue their training through medical residency, and our graduates go on to some of the most outstanding fellowships and residencies in the country. The figures below show the specialties and institutions recent UChicago MSTP alumni have chosen for their residencies.

 

2022 Residency Match List 

Program

State

Specialty

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

MA

Emergency Medicine

Stanford University Hospitals

CA

Anesthesiology

Stanford University Hospitals

CA

Internal Medicine (Cardiology, Research)

University of Chicago Medical Center

IL

Pathology (Research)

University of Chicago Medical Center

IL

Dermatology

Yale New Haven Hospital

CT

Psychiatry (Research)

 

  • 338

    graduates

  • 78

    current students

  • 4

    alumni elected to the National Academy of Sciences

  • 5

    former and current Directors of other MSTPs

Career Data

The University of Chicago MSTP has a long and distinguished history of training outstanding and highly impactful physician scientists. During its 55 years of continuously funded existence, 338 students have graduated with PhD’s in diverse specialties including Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (63), Pathology (44), Immunology (40), Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology (30), Neurosciences (24), Pharmacology (17), Biophysics (13), Genetics (8), Chemistry (8), Economics/Social Sciences (10), Organismal Biology & Anatomy (11), Cancer Biology (8), Microbiology (6), Medical Physics (5), and Developmental Biology (5) Of our graduates that have completed residency and are still active in their careers (n=305), 74% are in research-intensive or research-related positions, including 168 current academic appointments. Among these are 4 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 5 current or former MSTP directors, 34 leaders in academic medicine, 6 CFO/CEO or CMOs and one university president (University of Redlands). 

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Patrick O. Brown, AB’76, PhD’80, MD’82
Arthur Weiss, PhD’78, MD’79
Thomas Wellems, PhD’80, MD’81
Christopher Walsh, PhD'83, MD'85

CURRENT OR FORMER MSTP DIRECTORS
Mark Anderson, PhD’92, MD’94, University of California, San Francisco
Mark Krasnow, PhD’83, MD’85, Stanford University
Raghavendra Mirmira, AB’86, PhD’91, MD’93, University of Indiana
Christopher Walsh, PhD’83, MD’85, Harvard-MIT
Arthur Weiss, PhD’78, MD’79, University of California, San Francisco

Notable Alumni

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