Physician-Scientist Training Program (PePSTP)
Washington University School of Medicine and its Department of Pediatrics have a long and successful history of training pediatric physician-scientists. Our Pediatric Physician-Scientist Training Program (PePSTP) focuses on the critical period from completion of the combined MD/PhD degree through the clinical and mentored post-doctoral research training years. The PePSTP combines the outstanding clinical training environment of St. Louis Children’s Hospital with rigorous scientific training in the world-renowned laboratories across WashU Medicine.
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Preferential access to subspecialty fellowships
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Individualized training experience
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Enhanced Transitional mentoring
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Educational funds + salary enhancement
4.5
Average MD/PhD interns per year
89%
InDividual K award success rate
33
trainees inducted since 2012
The PePSTP at Wash U was formalized in 2011, and the program has received substantial external support since 2013 from the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation, in memory of Oliver Langenberg, a St. Louis businessman and philanthropist who led the Foundation for 50 years and died in 2012 at the age of 99.