M.D./M.S. Program
The M.D./M.S. program, offered by Thayer School and Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), is designed for people who intend to pursue clinical practice and want to develop research skills in a related engineering area. It is also well suited to students who want to better understand technologies they will employ as practicing physicians. The program provides a funded research experience in engineering that is expected to lead to a research publication and provides practice in engineering design and analysis.
Applicants must hold an undergraduate degree in engineering and meet the entrance requirements of each school. Application must be made to each school separately. M.D. students apply to Thayer School in their first, second, or third year of medical school and carry out their M.S. studies in the fourth and part of the fifth year. The schedule provides 12 months to complete the M.S. degree and preserves time in July and August following the third and fourth years for important DMS activities. The M.S. program requires a minimum of 3 terms in residence at Thayer School.
Years 1 and 2
- Dartmouth Medical School
Year 3
- Dartmouth Medical School (through August)
Year 4
- Thayer School (September-June)
Year 5
- Dartmouth Medical School (July-August)
- Thayer School (September-November)
- Dartmouth Medical School (December-June)
M.D./M.S. Course Options
Applied mathematics (choose 1 course)
- ENGS 91 Numerical Methods in Computation
- ENGS 92 Fourier Transforms and Complex Variables
- ENGS 100 Methods in Applied Mathematics I
- ENGS 103 Statistical Methods in Engineering
- ENGS 104 Optimization Methods for Engineering Applications
- ENGS 105 Computational Methods for Partial Differential Equations I
- ENGS 106 Numerical Linear Algebra
Engineering courses (choose 2 courses)
- ENGS 110 Signal Processing
- ENGS 130 Mechanical Behavior of Materials
- ENGS 131 Science of Solid State Materials
- ENGS 132 Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Condensed Phases
- ENGS 140 Applied Mechanics: Dynamics
- ENGS 150 Computational Fluid Dynamics
- ENGS 155 Intermediate Thermodynamics
- ENGS 156 Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer
- ENGS 161 Metabolic Engineering
- ENGS 162 Methods in Biotechnology
- ENGS 167 Medical Imaging
Engineering electives (choose 3 courses)
- Select 3 additional graduate engineering courses
Other
- Research leading to a written thesis
- An oral defense of the thesis