The Department of Otolaryngology offers predoctoral training leading to the Ph.D. degree through the Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP). Students can get training in the hearing sciences in any of the basic science laboratories of the Oregon Hearing Research Center (OHRC); graduate students belong to the NGP, though students may come from other degree granting departments or programs.

Prospective students apply directly to the NGP, not to individual laboratories. In the first year of their training in the NGP, predoctoral Ph.D. candidates are involved in course work and are fully supported by the program. At the end of the first year, candidates join a laboratory where they will carry out their Ph.D. research. Because the NGP's qualifying exam includes preparation of an NIH individual fellowship-style proposal (NRSA) of their thesis research, NGP students will be well prepared for submission of a pre-doctoral NRSA, which could provide funding by the third or fourth year.

For more information about our predoctoral training opportunities, please contact the former Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program, Peter Gillespie (gillespp@ohsu.edu).