The curriculum comprises the school?s outstanding preclinical and clinical training, rigorous PhD graduate training and several elements, including professional development workshops and other activities, specifically designed to enhance the MD / PhD training experience. There has been a long tradition of research excellence and physician scientist training at the Miller School of Medicine. With the opportunities for basic and clinical research here, Miami?s diverse population and access to Latin America and the Caribbean, the backdrop of a vibrant city, make the Miller School a unique place for MD / PhD training.

Graduate students in the pharmacology graduate program are trained rigorously in cellular, molecular, and integrative pharmacology to provide a foundation for their dissertation research. During their first year they work in the laboratories of at least three faculty and choose a graduate faculty mentor to train with and complete their research / dissertation.

Students are given an unusually wide range of opportunities for research, including cardiovascular pharmacology; cellular communication and signal transduction; studies in regulation of gene expression; membrane biophysics; muscle excitability and contractility; synapse formation; and neuronal growth and repair.