{"id":4045,"date":"2009-03-04T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/graduate-program\/graduate-program-outline\/examples\/individual-curricula-examples-for-mstl-students\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:32:06","slug":"individual-curricula-examples-for-mstl-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/graduate-program\/graduate-program-outline\/examples\/individual-curricula-examples-for-mstl-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual Curricula Examples for MSTP (MD\/PhD) Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

For students entering into Pharmacology from the MSTP (MD\/PhD) Program:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
FIRST & SECOND YEARS – Medical School<\/em><\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
Students enter the Pharmacology Program at the end of their 2nd year in Medical School<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THIRD YEAR (1st year in graduate school)<\/em><\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

Summer (after Step 1 Board Exam)<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
    \n
  • Dissertation Research<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Fall Semester<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
    \n
  • Elective #1<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  • PHCO 701<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • PHCO 732 (Grant Writing)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • BBSP 710 (or another grad level course in Statistics)<\/span><\/strong>
    \n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Spring Semester<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
    \n
  • Elective #2<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  • PHCO 730<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Doctoral Written Exam Due<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Doctoral Oral Exam Administered<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, AND (maybe) SEVENTH YEAR <\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

Fall Semester<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
    \n
  • Dissertation research<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Spring Semester<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
    \n
  • Dissertation research<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Defend Dissertation (at completion of thesis research)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

SEVENTH AND EIGHTH (maybe EIGHTH AND NINTH ) YEARS<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
    \n
  • Finish Medical School<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

2 Electives<\/strong> \u2014 Any graduate-level 1, 2 or 3-credit course, in any scientific discipline, will satisfy this requirement. Elective courses must total at least 4 credit hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For students entering into Pharmacology from the MSTP (MD\/PhD) Program: FIRST & SECOND YEARS – Medical School Students enter the Pharmacology Program at the end of their 2nd year in Medical School THIRD YEAR (1st year in graduate school) Summer (after Step 1 Board Exam) Dissertation Research Fall Semester Elective #1 PHCO 701 PHCO 732 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4045","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25535,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4045\/revisions\/25535"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}