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Emergency Medicine Summer Research
Internship – 2009
This internship is intended to develop future clinical investigators by providing research experience, instruction, and mentoring to medical students early in their education. Students will obtain hands-on experience with faculty-initiated research and learn to develop their own ideas into coherent, even fundable, research proposals. It is designed to be an 8-week, full-time summer commitment.
Didactic lectures on the following topics will be presented: Drafting the Research Question, Searching the Literature, Study Design 1 and 2, Introduction to Statistics, and Anatomy of a Grant Proposal. Early in the internship, 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 internship, students are expected to complete new investigator training modules offered through the University of Maryland Human Research Protections Office. The assigned modules (HIPAA and the biomedical modules in CITI) are available at http://medschool.umaryland.edu/hrpo/education.asp.
The internship will begin after May 25 and will end July 17. There will be a mandatory 3-hour orientation session soon after May 25 (date to be determined). Students will be expected to spend 20 hours per week on a faculty-initiated research project in addition to fulfilling other course responsibilities, which include attendance at didactic lectures and preparation of a 5-page student-initiated research proposal.
Interested students should email their resume and a completed application form to Dr. Michael Witting (mwitt001@umaryland.edu) by March 31.
Students enrolled in the internship will receive a $2000 stipend, contingent on completing the course requirements.
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