Research
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation is excited to announce the launch of our Student Summer Fellowship (SSF) program. SSF grants are awarded for research and/or service in community health and cultural competency. Ideal SSF projects are focused on studying cultural competency issues, developing skills to become relationship-centered physicians, and addressing a public health need in an underserved community or population.
There are two types of fellowships:
The Student Summer Research Fellowship is awarded for research into community health and cultural competency issues. Although this is a research-based Fellowship, the focus should be on humanistic patient care and as such the proposal should show significant interaction with the target population.
The Student Summer Service Fellowship is intended to provide students an opportunity to design and implement a service project addressing a public health need in an underserved community or population. The Foundation’s goal is to provide an opportunity for students to work directly with patients and to become more compassionate, relationship-centered physicians.
For additional information, including eligibility, project details and application requirements, please visit The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Student Summer Fellowships or call 201.735.8725.
Seeking African American/Black and Latino/a medical students interested in HIV vaccine research
The HIV Vaccine Trials Network, in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is investing in a young generation of HIV prevention researchers by providing African-American and Latino/a medical students with opportunities for independent research along with structured mentoring, project and salary funding, training, and professional development activities. The complete Request for Applications can be found on the HVTN RAMP Scholar Program website.
Grant recipients will work under the mentorship of HVTN-affiliated investigators to conduct short-term research projects in areas of basic, clinical, behavioral and social science. Projects can be:
Short-Term Projects: 2-4 months
- Timed with a summer break or fourth year research elective
- Travel to an HIV Vaccine Trials Unit in the US or abroad
- Attend and present at an HVTN Conference
- Maximum award of $20,000
Long-Term Projects: 9-12 months
- Research at an HIV Vaccine Trials Unit in the US with up to 16 weeks at an international HIV Vaccine Trials Unit
- Can be timed with a planned masters or doctoral program, or be a distinct, non-degree associated research-focused year
- Attend two scientific conferences, including presenting at the HVTN conference
- Maximum award of $60,000
Project Ideas
Project ideas include, but are not limited to:
- What are the best practices for conducting informed consent and parental assent procedures to encourage informed participation of youth in South African HIV vaccine trials?
- What is the scientific literacy of men who have sex with men in Boston about vaccines, pre-exposure prophylaxis, and microbicides?
- Investigation of HIV disparities in men who have sex with men in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Apoptosis of CD4 and CD8 T-cells and B cells and how it relates to the durability of vaccine responses based at Emory University.
Application Materials
If you are interested in applying, visit HVTN RAMP Scholar Program website and e-mail Jenna Udren, RAMP Coordinator. We will connect you with investigators who can assist you in selecting a project or topic of interest and potentially serve as a mentor for that project. Applications are due December and January annually.
For More Information
All correspondence concerning the program should be addressed to:
- Jenna Udren, MPH
RAMP Coordinator
HIV Vaccine Trials Network - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Eastlake Ave., E3-300
Seattle, WA 98109-1024
Office: 206.667.6712
judren@fredhutch.org
The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) Medical Student Anesthesia Research Program (MSARP) provides 50 medical students across the nation an opportunity to do clinical or basic science research. If you aren't sure on specialties, this provides a great opportunity to get some research and clinical anesthesia experience (difficulty to do this before M3 year). This is also an excellent opportunity to see a brand new city, hospital, etc. See details below, and email me (lhouse2@uthsc.edu) if you have any questions.
For those of you interested in anesthesiology, the FAER is a well-recognized. It will come up in interviews! M3s, this is a great way to get paid while doing an away/audition rotation the summer before apps go in M4 year.
Deadline: December
Duration: 8 weeks, scheduling is flexible. for M3s, you can use this experience toward 2 option blocks during your M4 summer!
Stipend: $400/week = $3,200
Travel stipend: Additional $1000 for travel to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (in San Diego this year!) annual meeting
Application: Statement of interest, 2 letters of recommendation, "good standing" letter, unofficial transcript
Sites: Many exceptional programs around the country. You rank your top 5 and get "matched"
based on application score.
Questions: Contact McLean
- For information visit: https://www.asahq.org/faer
St. Jude invites UTHSC students to apply for our NIH/NCI-funded (5 R25CA023944-31) Pediatric Oncology Education (POE) Program. The program offers a unique opportunity for pre-doctoral students preparing for careers in the biomedical sciences, medicine, and pharmacy to gain biomedical and oncology research experience. Students participate in basic or clinical oncology research, research and clinical conferences, and a core lecture series designed specifically for them. All participants make a PowerPoint presentation on their research project and submit a report on their research project written in the style of a journal in which their faculty mentor publishes.
A primary goal of the POE program is to encourage students to pursue a career in cancer
research. Thus, we are particularly interested in highly qualified students with a
serious career interest in cancer research, either as a clinical scientist or laboratory-based
research scientist.
Prior research experience is required for all applicants. The POE 2014 class average
undergraduate GPA was 3.80. In 2014, 51 students from 39 schools in 20 states and
the District of Columbia were selected from 500 applicants. POEs must be United States
citizens, non-citizen nationals, or possess a visa permitting permanent residence
in the United States (required by the funding agency). All must have completed at
least their college sophomore year by the time they participate. Medical students
spend a minimum of 9 weeks in the program. The minimum tenure requirement for all
others is 11 weeks (10 weeks for returning students). All POE applicants must have
an undergraduate GPA of at least 3.40 (on a 4.0 scale) in math and science (biology,
chemistry, and physics) and at least a 3.40 overall. The remuneration is $4,000. Fully
furnished group housing adjacent to our campus is provided at no cost for non- local
participants.
The POE home page contains links to the program application. The deadline for receipt of all application materials is February. Early application is highly recommended, since we make some early placements. Letters of recommendation sent as PDF attachments to email are requested. Members of under-represented ethnic minority groups and women are particularly encouraged to apply, since one of our major long-term program goals is to increase the diversity of persons engaged in oncology research and practice. Our NIH/NCI-funded (2 P30CA021765-34S1) Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE) grant provides remuneration for additional undergraduate under-represented minority POE Program participants.
AACAP is pleased to offer two fellowship programs for medical students interested in child and adolescent psychiatry. Please check the AACAP website for a complete listing of award opportunities.
Jeanne Spurlock Minority Medical Student Research Fellowships in Substance Abuse and Addiction
Supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse
The Jeanne Spurlock Minority Medical Student Research Fellowship in Substance Abuse and Addiction provides up to $4,000 for 12 weeks of research training in substance abuse and addiction under a child and adolescent psychiatrist mentor. This program also provides additional travel funds to attend the AACAP Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.
Focusing Research on the Border Area (FRONTERA) Border Health Scholars is a 10-week research internship offered by the University of Arizona College of Medicine's Office of Inclusive Excellence & Community Engagement.
The course provides undergraduate, graduate and medical students with an increased understanding of public health disparities in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region through practical hands-on research experience, role model mentoring, and integration into a network of peer researchers/public health professionals invested in the development of each trainee. Participants are matched, according to their areas of interest, with an experienced scientist/researcher whose work has an impact on border health. Students will present the outcomes of their research at the end of the course.
We encourage interested students to check out our website for more information on the program and how to apply at College of Medicine Tucson.
For more information, please contact: Kameron Hanson, 520.626.6148 or at khanson@azcc.arizona.edu.
In order to encourage more medical students to pursue academic and research careers, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) offers outstanding year-long and summer research training programs for students enrolled in schools in the U.S. Women and under-represented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Students enrolled in MD/PhD programs are not eligible to apply.
For further information, visit: www.hhmi.org/medfellowships or email medfellows@hhmi.org.