Taking a Year in Residency to do a Masters

[rmorelan]

A friend of mine in manitoba is planning on taking a year off - which apparantely is somehow paid for through their program - in the middle of their residency to zip down to the US and do a masters degree. This certainly is not built into the program normally (as a few programs seem to do).

 

The possibilty of doing something like that never even occurred to me but of course being the curious sort of person I am I should ask - is anyone aware of someone doing this? How, if at all it is, is such a degree funded?

[hemogoblin]

A friend of mine in manitoba is planning on taking a year off - which apparantely is somehow paid for through their program - in the middle of their residency to zip down to the US and do a masters degree. This certainly is not built into the program normally (as a few programs seem to do).

 

The possibilty of doing something like that never even occurred to me but of course being the curious sort of person I am I should ask - is anyone aware of someone doing this? How, if at all it is, is such a degree funded?

 

I've known a couple people who've done this through the Clinician Investigator Program (CIP). They did the masters at their home school though, and retained some clinical responsibility. It was an 80/20 split in favour of research while they did their masters. Maybe they're also funded through this? As far as I know, you get your full resident's salary while you do the grad degree.

[hemogoblin]

Here's a link for some context: http://cip.medicine.dal.ca/

 

This is by no means unique to Dal. I think most Canadian schools, if not all, offer this.

[ploughboy]

Very commonly done, through some sort of "Clinician Investigator" "Clinician Scientist" "Surgeon Scientist" etc program.

 

Some U of T links (yes, I know you're going to Ottawa)

 

http://cip.utoronto.ca/

http://www.deptmedicine.utoronto.ca/edustudies/CSTProgram.htm

 

 

 

Some Royal College Links

 

http://www.royalcollege.ca/portal/page/portal/rc/credentials/accreditation/arps/specialty/clinician

 

http://rcpsc.medical.org/information/index.php?specialty=550&submit=Select

 

 

I have also sent you a PM.

[dazzle]

does the research need be related to the field of residency?

[rmorelan]

does the research need be related to the field of residency?

 

Ha - that is a good question - my friend in manitoba is doing a degree in public health at Harvard and that isn't related to his field. I would suspect the clinical scientist program though would be much more focused(?) If I did something it certainly would be more focused.

 

He certainly didn't sign up for a direct clinical scientist program through carms.

[Satsuma]

You don't apply to the CIP through carms. You do it through your affiliated university. If accepted to the program, you essentially get extended funding to cover the additional years of training in terms of annual salary. It does not cover the cost of the degree, however. Your friend would be paying for the MPH out of pocket, unless he/she got a scholarship of some sort, which is hard for a more course-based degree like an MPH.

 

Your research plans could be as focused as you like.

 

It's hard to say that an MPH isn't related to your friend's specialty though. Public health is related to all specialties. Especially if your friend is doing the stats/epidemiology focus, it could be very helpful, depending on his/her research goals.