Office of Student Research

Clinical Opportunities

• Advanced Ambulatory Clinical Clerkship in Musculoskeletal Medicine

  This month-long experience is designed for medical students interested in General Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, Rehabilitative Medicine, or Orthopedics.

• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Travel Fellowship

  Anesthesiology Externships at the University of Maryland

  This 4-week and 8-week program provides first year medical students with the opportunity to gain experience in anesthesiology. The four-week program provides basic experience in 1) equipment, techniques, and management; 2) preoperative assessment; 3) clinical monitoring; and 4) basic pharmacology principles. The 8-week program includes the prior experience and 5) experience in anesthesia subspecialties; 6) intraoperative monitoring; and 7) learning laryngoscopy and fiberoptic bronchoscopy. An application (PDF or MS Word) and Dean's referral (PDF or MS Word) must be completed.

• Applied Epidemiology Fellowship at CDC

  Eligibility: Current third and fourth year medical students interested in applying for next year’s class (September)

  A new one year fellowship in applied epidemiology for third or fourth year medical students sponsored by Pfizer Foundation and Pfizer Inc., is available through the CDC Foundation. Eight competitively selected medical students will come to CDC for a 10-12 month fellowship in applied epidemiology. Students will participate in day-to-day applied epidemiology activities, including field work and possibly outbreak investigations, in programs around CDC, with an emphasis on non-infectious disease assignments. It is hoped that the full year will allow them an opportunity to see the critical role of epidemiologic science in the development of policy. Topics that will be covered in a series of didactic training and seminars include epidemiologic methods, biostatistics, policy development, and the impact of population health on clinical practice.

• Belize Institute for Tropical & Wilderness Medicine
• Application
• MSWord
• PDF



• Comprehensive Rural Health Project Jamkhed, INDIA

  A Community-Based Primary Health Care elective for medical students at Jamkhed International Institute for Training & Research, Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed, India.    (PDF or MSWord)

• Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine

  This website provides easy access to ~39 centers of Integrative Medicine in the U.S. at academic health centers including the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Both the research and clinical programs that are taking place are listed along with clinically-oriented training opportunities and jobs.

• Elective in Pediatric and Adult Cataract Surgery (Ethiopia) for Medical Students

• Fogarty-Ellison Overseas Fellowships in Global Health and Clinical Research

• Humanistic Elective in Alternative Medicine, Activism and Reflective Transformation (HEART)

• Institute for Research, Education and Training in Addictions (IRETA)
• Brochure (PDF)
• Application (PDF)



• Interhealth Program in Ecuador

• International Emergency Medicine and Health Fellowship

• International Health Medical Education Consortium

• Kean Tropical Medicine Travel Fellowship

• Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)

• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Pain and Palliative Care Fourth Year Elective

• Montefiore Medical Center - Research Based Activism and Advocacy Course

  Based at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY, the one-month program is part of the offerings in the Department of Family & Social Medicine.
• Application
• MSWord
• PDF
• Flyer
• News Articles 1 and 2 (PDFs)
• Montefiore website



• National Medical Fellowships - Fellowship Program in AIDS Care

• NIH Clinical Electives Program

  The Clinical Center at NIH offers a full complement of elective rotations for third- and fourth-year students in medical and dental schools in the United States as well as the international community at the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, a 250-bed hospital located on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Patients are admitted to the Clinical Center who have the precise kind or stage of illness currently under investigation by NIH clinicians.

  Deadline: Rolling acceptance all year

• Research-Based Health Activism Course

  A unique course, which combines both didactic and project based approaches, to the teaching of research-based health activism. Didactic lectures will introduce three major topic areas: research methods, health policy, and advocacy skills.
• Flyer
• Application
• MSWord
• PDF
• NY Times Article
• Description of a Research-Based Health Activism Curriculum for Medical Students (Cha et al)
• APS article
• Re-Writing your Resume/CV



• Simon Kramer Society Externship in Radiation Oncology

  The Simon Kramer Externship was established for the purpose of exposing medical students to the discipline of radiation oncology. During the 6-week period of the externship, the medical student will have the unique opportunity to begin to develop a foundation of the clinical knowledge applied to the field of cancer therapy, an understanding of treatment planning rationales, and a grasp of currently active areas of research and controversy. The extern will be assigned to staff member(s) and will be able to observe and assist in the follow-up clinical treatment area. The extern will also be assigned a research project. The extern will have the opportunity of attending daily planning conferences, lectures, and journal clubs. This externship is tailored to the experience, interests, and background of the extern.

  Specialty: Radiation Oncology
  Duration: 6 weeks during the summer (June to August, flexible)
  Funding: $1500 (with partial travel allowance)
  Application Due: 2/29/2008
  
  Contact: Ester San Diego
  Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  Department of Department of Radiation Oncology
  111 South 11th St.
  Philadelphia, PA 19107-5097
  (215) 955-5951 (tel)
  (215) 955-5331 (fax)
  ester.sandiego@mail.tju.edu (e-mail)

• University of Pittsburgh - Thomas Detre Senior Medical Student Psychiatry Award
• Deadline: May 4, 2007
• Application (PDF)

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