UNC医学院（SOM）能够平衡杰出的临床技能开发任务与对基础，转化和临床科学方面国际认可和资金雄厚的研究计划的严格支持之间的平衡，因此得到了公认。我们的MD-PhD计划的学生能够与非常多元化的教师进行培训，其研究领域从最基本的生物过程扩展到更广泛的临床应用和医疗服务研究领域。UNC营造了一种协作研究的文化，在这种文化中，跨部门和跨学校的协作极为普遍并且受到高度重视。同时，UNC非常致力于培训杰出的医师。由于这些互补的和同样有价值的机构卓越领域，UNC为寻求在最新的医学博士学位课程中寻求综合学位培训的学生提
The UNC School of Medicine (SOM) is well-recognized for its ability to balance the missions of outstanding clinical skill development with rigorous support for internationally recognized and well-funded research programs in basic, translational, and clinical science. The students in our MD-PhD Program are able to train with a very diverse faculty whose areas of research extend from the most basic of biological processes to translational interests much more clinically applied, and health care service research. UNC fosters a culture of collaborative research where cross-departmental and cross-school collaboration is extremely common and highly valued. At the same time, UNC is very much committed to the training of outstanding physicians. Because of these complementary and equally valued areas of institutional excellence, UNC represents an ideal environment for students seeking to pursue combined-degree training in a state-of-the-art MD-PhD Program.<br><br>This environment is further enhanced by the presence of all five of the Schools of Health Affairs (Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Medicine) on a single, integrated campus and the close proximity that exists between these five schools and the College of Arts and Sciences. In fact, UNC is one of only four public universities in the country with all five of these Health Affairs Schools, each of which is listed among the national leaders in terms of NIH grant support. This proximity fosters ongoing collaboration among investigators from a wide variety of disciplines. Furthermore, we have consistently taken advantage of this proximity to seek a diverse array of research opportunities for the next generation of physician-scientists.