MD-PhD Facts and Figures
Student Body
- Over 180 students - one of the largest programs in the country
- Our students are in 12 different graduate groups:
biomedical graduate studies groups plus bioengineering,
health care management, history and sociology of science, physics, and anthropology.
Faculty and Research
- 628 faculty are members of Biomedical Graduate Studies Groups
- Nearly half of Penn School of Medicine faculty who are members of BGS are physician scientists
- 3rd rated overall in amount of NIH research funding; 1st in NIH research training funding
- 892,000 square feet of research space, much of which is new or newly renovated
History / Alumni
- Founded in 1969 - one of the oldest programs in the country
- One of the largest Medical Scientist Training Program grants in the country
- Nearly 450 alumni
- Approximately 80% of those who had completed residency training at our last comprehensive review were physician-scientists in academic medicine, research institutes or industry