The Yale University Faculty of Arts and Sciences has unanimously approved YSN's proposal for a PhD in Nursing program to replace the current DNSc program. The PhD program will begin in the fall of 2006.
"This is a major accomplishment for YSN and for Yale," said Dean Margaret Grey. "It will enable us to continue to recruit the best and the brightest students to Yale and to train the next generation of nurse scientists," Grey said.
The PhD program will be a full time program and will offer students mentored teaching opportunities that will use the resources of the McDougal Graduate Student Center which has a wide array of services for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Mentored research opportunities will be enhanced through collaborative work with other Yale graduate and professional schools and will utilize the broad network of resources at Yale University. Students accepted into the program will receive comprehensive tuition funding and stipends.
Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education recently awarded YSN a 3-year grant to support the recruitment and training of outstanding applicants for the PhD program, particularly from "under-represented" groups within the nursing profession (e.g., racial and ethnic minorities, males). The funds will help in the development of curricula within the PhD program with a specific focus area of either clinical research (e.g., self or family management of health, management of acute and chronic illness, issues in health disparities) or health systems and policy research, which will prepare graduates to assume academic positions and leadership roles in schools of nursing nationally and around the world.
Interested candidates should contact Professor Marjorie Funk, Director of the YSN Doctoral Program at Marjorie.funk@yale.edu.
