Office of Student Research

Medical Students Toronto Summer Research Experience

***** applications will be accepted until December 19, 2005 ******

The deadline for the Summer Research Experience program at the Hospital For Sick Children is approaching rapidly.

The Summer Research Experience is a program designed for medical students during the summer break. The program was established to introduce medical students to the field of clinical research.

The students will work on a research project as well as be involved in active recruitment of patients and families (day and evening shifts) in the Emergency. The students will encounter fascinating assignments in different areas of research in Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine, and will learn about retrospective, prospective, review projects or case reports with the mentoring by one of the staff physicians.

The Summer Research Experience is a rotation built of six or twelve weeks, with half day of teaching sessions every week. Each week a different focus in clinical research will be discussed with physicians from the Hospital. Topics such as literature search, research proposal preparation, recruiting patients, ethical considerations in research, writing a review and writing a paper are some of the topics discussed.

Workshops on Clerkship, Residency and Fellowship, with personal experience as described by the Hospital's trainees will also help the student getting better prepared for his/her career goals in the field of Medicine.

An important component of the Summer Research Experience is "critical reading" , a guided reading and interpreting of medical literature. Students will read and discuss scientific papers.

Only a few spots are available for the Summer Research Experience during the summer of 2006, applications for the unfunded (6 or 12 weeks) programs will be accepted until December 19, 2005.

Letters of acceptance to the program will be sent in February 2006.

Dont hesitate to contact the program coordinator, Ritsa Iriotakis, at 416-813-7654 ext 1486.