NIH Oxford Cambridge Scholars Program

• Timelines & Benchmarks
• Roles of Mentors
• Current Cohort
• Overview of LPM
• Training Plan
• Discoveries & Pubs
• New Class Resources
• Current Student Resources

Timelines/Benchmarks

Timelines and Benchmarks of Graduate Study

• Admissions and Orientation
• First Year
• Second Year
• Third Year
• Fourth Year

 

Third Year

October

Upon arrival, you and the NIH co-mentor must arrange for a formal presentation, i.e. an open seminar to the NIH research community on the work carried out in the UK.  This exercise is critical for developing public speaking skills when addressing a scientific audience.  The student is also encouraged to make similar presentations at local, national, and international scientific meetings, laboratory meetings, and departmental/discipline retreats whenever possible. When on the NIH campus, the Scholars Frontiers in Bioscience also provides you an opportunity to develop your public speaking skills.

 

September

At the end of the third year, a new progress report should be submitted by October 1st.  Delivered in an RO1 format, this report should again detail research milestones and should include papers if applicable. The report should outline plans for finishing up the thesis work.  An updated Training Plan, CV, and contact information should also be submitted simultaneously.  In addition, students who have not yet published a first-author paper should begin work on one immediately.  While Oxford and Cambridge have no formal requirement for publication in order to be awarded a Ph.D. or D. Phil. degree, the OxCam Program expects that the student will publish at least one first-author paper in a respected peer-reviewed journal in order for the student to be competitive for obtaining a high-quality postdoctoral position in the United States.