Why Train at MD Anderson

What does MD Anderson offer postdoctoral and research fellows?

MD Anderson offers the highest standards of scientific research, including the following resources and programs:
 

• Fast Track Orientation: One-day program to help new trainees get off to a fast start in their research training at MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Trainee Recognition Day: An exciting day of science and celebration where all clinical fellows, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students have the opportunity to compete and win cash awards up to $1,000 for winning abstracts
• Travel Awards: An annual opportunity for all-clinical fellows, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to compete and win travel awards of $500 each
  
• Altana Pharma Odyssey Award for Outstanding Research Publications: An award which includes a monetary prize, to recognize achievements of a postdoctoral fellow as the main author of an outstanding contribution to the scientific literature in the broadly-defined area of cancer research
• Faculty Development Program: Provides a multitude of career-building development programs for trainees, including topics such as time-management, grant writing and management, technology and scientific excellence
• Postdoctoral Advisory Committee: An advisory committee consisting of faculty and postdoctoral fellows which provides a structured mechanism for the enhancement of the postdoctoral experience including professional and personal development
• "Common Exchanges" Forum: An informal quarterly gathering of postdoctoral fellows, various faculty and administrators who meet to discuss goals and issues related to the postdoctoral fellows’ MD Anderson research, work environment, programs and career development
• Specialized Career Assessment Tool: An annual evaluation that occurs between the postdoctoral fellow and the mentor using a specialized tool that assesses a very broad and diverse areas of career progression
• Mentor Line: A confidential, on-line communication by which trainees can send questions to Academic Affairs executives and staff, and view questions and answers that others have submitted

What does MD Anderson offer clinical fellows and residents?

We offer a philosophy of clinical care that continuously embraces comprehensive plans for growth in on-site care delivery with the requisite support systems:

• To expand access to top quality MD Anderson care
• To recruit and retain additional outstanding clinicians
• To expand powerful research that translates into innovative clinical trials
• To oversee the care of patients off-site, using Cancer Manager (TM) or other products to provide partnering physicians with education, decision support and disease management tools
• To provide adequate resources to enable each multidisciplinary disease-site center and each diagnostic service to give outstanding care and to carry out clinical trials for all types of cancer

We offer enhanced services, resources and programs, such as:
 

• GME Committee: A committee that includes representation from the trainee population, which monitors and advises on all aspects of the quality of education and the work environment for GME trainees in each program
• Trainee Recognition Day: An exciting day of science and celebration where all clinical fellows, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students have the opportunity to compete and win cash awards up to $1,000 for winning abstracts
• Faculty Development Program: Provides a multitude of career-building development programs for trainees, including topics such as time-management, grant writing and management, technology and scientific excellence
• "Informal Conversations" Forum: An informal quarterly gathering of fellows, residents, various faculty and administrators, who meet to discuss goals and issues, related to the clinical experience, work environment, programs and career development
• Scientific Publications Office: Writing and publishing resource for faculty and trainees.
• Research Medical Library: An innovative and forward-looking information resource serving the knowledge-based information needs of faculty and trainees
• Travel Awards: An annual opportunity for all-clinical fellows, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to compete and win travel awards of $500 each
• Mentor Line: A confidential, on-line communication whereby trainees can send questions to educational program executives and staff, and view questions and answers that others have submitted