The MSTP program allows students to work towards both an MD and Ph.D. degree through the Medical School and the Graduate School, respectively. Students are first admitted to the Medical School before applying for the MSTP.
This program, offered by the Medical School and the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, allows students to earn a doctor of medicine and a master of management degree in five years. Students apply to Kellogg in their third year of medical school, spend one year at Kellogg before completing both colleges degree requirements in their fifth year.
The MPH program is a part-time, evening program designed to prepare health care professionals to be boundary spanners between clinical care and public health. Students typically complete four hours of classroom instruction per week, year round, for 3 years. This program is administered through the Department of Preventive Medicine.
The MD/MPH Program allows students in the Medical School to earn a Masters in Public Health degree part-time in the evening while they earn a MD at NUMS. Administered through the Department of Preventive Medicine students should first be accepted into the Medical School before applying to the Graduate School.
The Master’s of Science in Clinical Investigation is a part-time evening program that complements the Master’s of Public Health program in providing education in quantitative and ethically sound methods necessary for design, implementation, analysis, and publication of clinical research studies.
This 18-month program is aimed at preparing students to provide one-on–one or group genetic counseling. Students apply through the Graduate School and the program is conducted primarily on the NUMS Chicago campus.
The IGP was established in 1990 to serve as an umbrella program for graduate student training in all basic science and clinical departments at Northwestern University Medical School. The IGP program is designed to give its students flexibility in choosing courses, research interests and thesis advisors at the medical school while offering them a strong foundation in the modern sciences. Students can earn a Ph.D degree in one of their nine curricula.
The Physical Therapy program is a 27-month program offered through the Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement. Upon fulfilling degree requirements students sit for the license examination.
The division of Psychology within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences offers this degree. Each year 5-7 new students are admitted.
This is a separate certificate program which prepares its students for a career as practitioners in orthotics or prosthetics. It is a six-month program that prepares individuals for the American Board for Certification practitioner-level exam.
Four schools and 20 departments participate in this program that offers students a PhD in Neuroscience. Those enrolled work with faculty from the Graduate School, School of Medicine, School of Speech and the School of Engineering. One of NUIN’s goals is to provide the students with hands-on laboratory research.
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