Financial support for students relocating to laboratories outside of Drexel University College of Medicine during their course of study.

Effective: January 01, 2003

Relocation of faculty and their laboratories to new institutions is a fact of academic life. Often senior graduate students move with their mentors to new institutions to complete their research projects but remain a part of the Office of Research & Biomedical Graduate Studies Program at Drexel University College of Medicine and return to defend their dissertation and graduate according to the policies and procedures of the Office of Research & Biomedical Graduate Studies Program. The Office of Research & Biomedical Graduate Studies Program is willing to support this practice provided the student is amenable to the move and continues to fulfill program requirements (e.g. course requirements, yearly committee meetings, etc.), the student fulfills a residency requirement (3 years), and the mentor can continue to provide financial support for the student’s research including money for supplies, purchased services and necessary equipment, as well as stipend and benefits (including health insurance and tuition) for the student at the levels established for all other graduate students in Biomedical Graduate Programs at the Drexel University College of Medicine. Such support for the duration of the student’s study must be verified by a written commitment from the mentor, co-signed and guaranteed by the new institution. The Associate Dean of Office of Research & Biomedical Graduate Studies (in consultation with the Vice Dean) and the director of the student’s program must review the proposed plan for the student and the guarantee of support before any student relocation is approved.

In some cases, students may not be able to relocate to the mentor’s new university and may elect to complete their dissertation project under the mentor’s direction, while remaining at the original institution. Such a request can only be approved if the specific requisites detailed below are fulfilled:

1) The student must be within one year of completing his/her research;

2) A faculty member in residence at Drexel University College of Medicine must accept responsibility for on site direction of the student’s research. Specifics of that arrangement must be agreed to by the two faculty members and must be in writing and approved by the student’s thesis committee;

3) Financial support for the student’s research must be included in the arrangement; this includes money for supplies, necessary equipment, and full salary and benefits (including health insurance), and tuition for the student at the levels established for all other graduate students in Biomedical Graduate Programs at Drexel University College of Medicine.

The Associate Dean of Office of Research & Biomedical Graduate Studies (in consultation with the Vice Dean) and the director of the student’s program must review the plan for the student and the guarantee of support before any such arrangement is approved.

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