Emergency Medicine Summer Research Workshop – 2008

This workshop is intended to develop future investigators by providing research experience, instruction, and mentoring to medical students early in their education. Students will obtain hands-on experience with a faculty-initiated research program and learn to develop their own ideas into coherent, even fundable, research proposals.

Didactic lectures include:  Drafting the Research Question, Searching the Literature, Study Design 1 and 2, Introduction to Statistics, and Anatomy of a Grant Proposal.  Early in the workshop, students may also attend the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Resident Research Day.  Held at Davidge Hall, this annual conference features resident research presentations and a lecture by a nationally-recognized guest professor.

Prior to the month, students are expected to complete new investigator training modules offered through the University of Maryland Human Research Protections Office.  The assigned modules are HIPAA and CITI (only the biomedical modules), and they are available at: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/hrpo/education.asp.

Students will be expected to work 10-20 hours per week on the faculty-initiated project in addition to didactic lectures and individual project preparation. There are 6 positions funded for the first 4 weeks (5/27 through 6/20/08), and 3 students may continue on for another 4 weeks (to 7/18/08). The stipend is $400 for each 4-week period. 

Interested students should email their resume and a completed application form to Dr. Michael Witting (mwitt001@umaryland.edu) by March 31st.

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