Fellowships & Programs

Medicine

Medical Scientist Training Program

Our PhD program is also open to students pursuing joint degrees in medicine, through Duke’ s Medical Scientist Training Program which is conducted under the auspices of the Duke University Graduate School and the Duke University School of Medicine. The program trains students as physician-scientists, equipping them for solving problems in human disease using the approaches and techniques of the basic biomedical and social sciences. The program, which leads to both the MD and PhD degrees and typically takes seven to eight years for completion, combines graduate education in a basic biomedical science with the full clinical curriculum of the School of Medicine. One of fifty such programs funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Duke MSTP was the fourth such program established by the NIH in 1966 and is widely regarded as one of the best.

Civil Society

The Joel L. Fleishman Civil Society Ph.D. Fellowship 

The Duke Sanford School of Public Policy offers the Joel L. Fleishman Civil Society Ph.D. Fellowship, awarded on merit to currently enrolled public policy Ph.D. students whose research focuses on the role of civil society and the capacity of nongovernmental organizations and their leaders to play significant public policy roles. The goal of the fellowship is to prepare graduates to work in domestic and international public agencies, universities, research organizations, and policy consulting firms.

The fellowship was established in honor of Joel L. Fleishman, founding director of the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs, now the Sanford School of Public Policy. 

• Read about Joel Fleishman's extraordinary life.
• Watch a video of Joel Fleishman's last class.