Hi everyone,
Greetings from the Stony Brook MSTP. We are in year 47 of the program and have been continuously NIH-funded for 27 years – going into the renewal application this year, we are really hoping not to break that trend!
I hope that you are all doing very well. I’m writing with the request to ask you to take a few minutes and complete this survey for the MSTP – the data in it will help us with the renewal application (NIH loves outcomes data and asks for more of it each time…). It’s very nice to have new buildings and all (check out the new SBU Cancer Center and Children’s Hospital buildings, opening this fall!) – but what NIH (and we) really care about the quality of training and our long-term outcomes, which is why we really need your responses.
To complete the survey, please click here or follow the link at the bottom of this email. Knowing how busy all of you are, I’d be grateful if you would do it quickly before it gets lost in a sea of other email. We have kept it as short as possible to minimize the burden on your time.
Where we are: The program has grown since most of you graduated – there are now about 60-65 students in the program (retreat photo above), and their accomplishments and recent match outcomes are terrific. One of our very successful alumni came back for a visit and remarked, after seeing the credentials of our incoming students (typically 95% on the MCAT, GPA 3.8, averaging 2-3 publications from undergrad / postbac research efforts), “I’d never be accepted these days!” – which, given the terrific success of that former student, makes us very hopeful for the current crop of trainees. We have great support from the school (about $1.5-2M investment per year from the Dean’s office), and assistance from scores of faculty. See https://medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu/mstp for details (some of the web site needs updating, admittedly). We also have a new facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/StonyBrookMSTP/.
Finally, we also received an AAMC Education Innovation Award last year for the MSTP classes taken in conjunction with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, which was started at SBU but has now visited many campuses. New this year, an Alda center curriculum designer and a gender communication researcher are creating a workshop for female students in the MSTP on communication approaches, to complement other, more broad-based training in implicit bias that all students are being exposed to.
With best wishes,
Mike Frohman
Director, SBU MSTP
Markus Seeliger, Paul Fisher, Maurizio Del Poeta, Richard Lin, Helen Hsieh, and Carine Maurer
Associate Directors
You can open the survey in your web browser by clicking this link or if the above link doesn’t work, try copying the link below into your web browser: https://goo.gl/forms/Bp0p68wKEEsIuH8u1