When Emmanuella Delva graduated from university in 2002, she soon realized that her chemistry degree and limited research experience were not enough to get her into competitive doctoral programmes in biomedical science. Her disappointment was huge. "My confidence was pretty low and I didn't think I was cut out for graduate school," she says. So when an adviser suggested a postbaccalaureate ('postbac') programme at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, she jumped at the chance to get a taste of graduate school without the five-year commitment.
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