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MD/MS Program

Dartmouth's MD/MS program, offered by Thayer School and The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 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. MD students apply to Thayer School in their first, second, or third year of medical school and carry out their MS studies in the fourth and part of the fifth year. The schedule provides 12 months to complete the MS degree and preserves time in July and August following the third and fourth years for important Geisel School of Medicine activities. The MS program requires a minimum of 3 terms in residence at Thayer School.

• Years 1 and 2
  • Geisel School of Medicine
• Year 3
  • Geisel School of Medicine (through August)
• Year 4
  • Thayer School (September-June)
• Year 5
  • Geisel School of Medicine (July-August)
  • Thayer School (September-November)
  • Geisel School of Medicine (December-June)

MD/MS Course Options

Applied Mathematics (choose 1 course)

• ENGS 91: Numerical Methods in Computation
• ENGS 92: Fourier Transforms and Complex Variables
• ENGS 93: Statistical Methods in Engineering
• ENGS 100: Methods in Applied Mathematics I
• 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 150: Computational Fluid Dynamics
• ENGS 155: Intermediate Thermodynamics
• ENGS 156: Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer
• ENGS 161: Microbial Physiology and 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