Meharry Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania Establish Joint MD/PhD Program

Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, one of four historically Black medical schools in the United States, has recently established a joint M.D./Ph.D. program with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Health Care Management Department. The initiative allows a student to simultaneously pursue a medical degree from Meharry and a Ph.D. in health care management at the Wharton School, the country’s top-ranked business school according to U.S. News. Cynthia Chude, a third-year medical student at Meharry, has been named the inaugural Escarce-Kingston Scholar. She will take a leave of absence from her current studies to complete a five-year doctoral program at the

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