Dear Emory MSTP Alumni,
As you may know, the current funding climate has introduced challenges for Medical Scientist Training Programs. Our program, like other very successful ones, needs external funds to continue to support our students in the best ways possible. While we have thus far managed to strategically prioritize and manage our resources, the most recent cuts are impacting student development resources. To help us in carrying forward our goal to be one of the nation’s most outstanding training programs, we have established an independent, self-generating, and reliable fund.
Donations to the fund are critical in supporting student development, recruitment, and program-wde activities like annual retreat. Our program has a long-standing history of supporting the development of its students. Student activities sponsored by the program at present include funding student attendance at national conferences; providing dinner at our clinical research conferences; and organizing program-wide social activities, to name a few. Through your support, we would like to continue offering these opportunities to as many students as possible.
To continue recruiting outstanding candidates, we must showcase our program, its amazing students, and all that Atlanta has to offer. We have traditionally held the social event during recruitment at a local restaurant, and this has been very enthusiastically received by the applicants. We would like to continue this tradition, and we need your support to do so.
Finally, but certainly not least, our annual retreat serves a critical need: to slow down and take stock of our program and our progress. It is a forum for senior students to pass on their wisdom, a chance for new students to bond both with their classmates and the other classes, and an opportunity to make critical adjustments in the program.
Whether you can buy an interviewee a beer (i.e. donate $5), send a senior graduate student to an international conference (i.e. donate $3000), or even more, we would be extremely grateful for your support as we work to help encourage and train your next colleague or your children’s next mentor! We need your support to train the next generation. Please make your tax-deductible donation here.
Kind Regards,
MD/PhD Program Student Government