Grad program with NIH

<p>Has anybody heard of grad school at the NIH in Bethesda? I received an email about this from the program and they make it sound as though it is substantially similar to a tradition grad school. I was just wondering if anybody knows anything about this.</p>

<p>I worked at the NIH one summer in college, and there was a grad student in our lab -- she was actually doing her PhD through Johns Hopkins, but she did her research at the NIH.</p>

<p>Was it a rotation or was her thesis in this lab? Did you get a feel from this individual about how the program was? I can only imagine that working at the NIH would be unbelievable but I am wondering if the graduate program is more along the lines of working at a research institute/health science center or if it's a horse of an entirely different color.</p>

<p>i got the same email. sounds like a good way to find funding if you want to go to one of those eastern schools that they're partners with.</p>

<p>Did you find that email and their website super vague as well? I have a lot of experience gleaning info from these kind of things and in their usual way, the NIH made this indecipherable.</p>

<p>Oh, yes, she was doing her thesis in the lab. I think perhaps her committee was at JHU, and she had other academic contacts there, but she was working at the NIH on a day-to-day basis.</p>

<p>I think she really enjoyed it -- she got to do research that she wanted to do, and obviously there are a lot of labs at the NIH to choose from, and they're funded pretty well. But I remember that she occasionally had to make the trip out to JHU for various events, and I don't think that was too enjoyable.</p>