Medical College Offers European Students Research Training
Posted on: Thursday, 29 December 2005, 15:00 CST
By Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dec. 29--The Medical College of Wisconsin is expanding its international influence.
The school plans to collaborate with the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in the fall to train students from Croatia and Norway who want to do research in physiology, the study of how living things function and the processes involved.
The Medical College has foreign students who applied individually, but this is the first time it will collaborate with schools in other countries, said William R. Hendee, dean of the school's graduate school of biomedical sciences.
Institutions in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden have also expressed interest in getting their students involved in the new effort, said Hubert V. Forster, a Medical College physiology professor and director of the school's physiology graduate studies program.
As many as four students studying for doctorates in physiology will arrive at the Medical College in August to spend 10 months taking two advanced physiology courses, said Forster, who will be on the international doctoral program's advisory committee.
The students will come from the University of Split School of Medicine in Split, Croatia, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
After their time at the Medical College, the students will return to their home schools. Six months later, they will return to the United States to take one or two more courses at Mayo, Forster said.
The foreign students' home schools will handle paying the fees for their U.S. classes and room and board. While at the Medical College, the students will spend about half their time on coursework and the other half working in research labs.
"Having the students here enriches the atmosphere for our own students and provides us with people who work in our labs at no cost," Forster said.
The Medical College has 165 doctoral students, 30 of whom are seeking those degrees in physiology.
There are two students from Croatia already studying at the Medical College. They have been there for three years and will likely complete their doctorates in spring 2007, Forster said.
The school's physiology department ranked fourth among all medical school physiology departments in the country in 2004 for grants from the National Institutes of Health, with 22 awards valued at $15.5 million. It has ranked among the top five schools in that category for the past five years.
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