The mission of the dual M.D./Ph.D. degree program at the UC Davis School of Medicine is to train physician scientists who are especially well-prepared to help meet the evolving scientific, social, ethical, political and humanitarian challenges facing health care. Meeting these challenges requires fundamental training in an area of science in addition to the traditional training received during completion of the M.D. degree.

Our program allows a broad diversity of Ph.D. disciplines from which to select, including the typical M.D./Ph.D. tracks in biomedical sciences and engineering.

UC Davis combines rich pre-clinical and clinical training with a strong commitment to basic and clinical research. Particular strengths include our Cancer Research Program  (UC Davis has recently achieved the National Cancer Institutes prestigious designation as a Cancer Center), a world recognized Center for Neuroscience  and our Biomedical Engineering Program. The emerging UC Davis Genome Center  and our strong integration with the Western Human Nutrition Research Group  as well as the Shriner's Hospital for Children  and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories  provide a tremendous wealth of talented investigators and infrastructure for cutting edge research in a wide variety of fields.

• Message from the Physician Scientist Training Program Director
  
  
• Message from the Executive Associate Dean for Research and Education
  
  
• Message from the Vice Chancellor and Dean of the School of Medicine
  
  
• Why UC Davis  
  A unique combination of resources and opportunities
  
  
• Research community, Ph.D. programs and graduate groups 
  Descriptions of research and graduate programs in the School of Medicine and the rest of UC Davis, opportunities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and links to related UC Davis resources