<p>Sakky, you;re wrong about what they look at. You have to be accepted to BOTH PhD and MD areas based on their own separate criteria and an interview for each to get into those programs. My husband interviewed for a couple, and he had amazing everything, but he (at the time) couldn't articulate his research interests in relation to how he would use it in medicine, so he was accepted to the med school, but not the PhD. Another friend was accepted to the PhD, but not the med school at another institution.</p>
<p>And I already stated that there might be a way to combine engineering with an MD, but it would be a lot more limited. My point was that before applying to such a program, you really have to think about how you would combine the two, because they look for that in the application process. But the people you linked to are interesting examples.</p>