Summer Opportunities Workshop
October 17, 2013
2204 MBRB
12:15pm - 1pm
Agenda
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Welcome – Dr. Dent
Summer Opportunities Overview – Dr. Dent
Rural Scholars – Dr. Bashford
Medical Student Training in Aging Research:
Dr. Ellen Roberts / Kristen Ruck
• Research Opportunities – Rita Kuwahara &
James Byrne
• Albert Schweitzer Fellows Program – Kira Mengistu
Summer Opportunities
• Research
• UNC
• Extramural
• Community Service
• International
• Specialty electives
AAMC Careers in Medicine
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Consider your long-term goals. Your career will evolve and you likely won’t have it all
figured out yet — nor should you, but try to envision the big picture. Is there a specialty
you’re strongly considering? How do you see yourself one day? As a physician scientist or
maybe busy in a private community practice?
Consider your short-term goals for the upcoming summer and how they might contribute
to your long-term goals. Gaining experience in a specific specialty through a clinical or
research program can help you refine your career plans or improve your chances of
matching into a competitive specialty. Some specialties value research experience more
highly than others. The Results of the NRMP® Program Director Survey outline how
program directors in 19 specialties view research when evaluating candidates.
Consider your personal needs and wants as well as your professional ones. While the
summer has increasingly become a block of time to do something productive, you may be
burned out and need a break or significant vacation time.
Now that you have some ideas, start researching opportunities early — ideally, December
or January of your first year. Contact people in your network from college and your first
year of medical school.
To explore various summer opportunities listed on the AAMC CiM website go to
https://www.aamc.org/cim/specialty/skillsandexperiences/clinicalandresearchopportunities/33806
0/summerprograms.html
AAMC Careers in Medicine
Why do research?
• A good mentor can be a valuable career resource.
• Research increasingly contributes to the way physicians
treat their patients.
• The "bench to bedside" approach that is driving modern
biomedicine suggests that research will have an even
larger impact on medical practice in the future.
• Participating in research is a great way to get the
opportunity to work with faculty and possibly foster a lifelong relationship with a mentor.
• Research training gives you a favorable advantage when
applying for residency positions.
• Research training will make you a better physician with a
sharper mind and stronger critical thinking skills.
Research resources
Office of Medical Student Research
• https://www.med.unc.edu/omsr/
• Office phone - 966-3997
Programs at UNC
• https://www.med.unc.edu/omsr/resources-for-students/researchprograms
Short-term opportunities outside UNC
• https://www.med.unc.edu/omsr/resources-for-students/researchopportunities-1/short-term-research-opportunities
Research Funding
• https://www.med.unc.edu/omsr/resources-for-students/researchopportunities-1/supplemental-funding-grants-and-awardopportunities
John B. Graham Student Research Society
• http://www.med.unc.edu/jbg/opportunities
Medical Student Training in Aging Research
(MSTAR) Program
http://www.afar.org/research/funding/mstar/
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Administered by: The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and
the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
What is the MSTAR Program?
• Aging-related research and geriatrics experience
• 8- to 12-week structured research, clinical, and didactic program in
geriatrics
• Work with top experts in the field.
• The National Training Centers are:
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David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los
Angeles - 18 positions (includes positions at the University of California,
San Francisco and University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences
Center)
Harvard Medical School - 7 positions
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - 16 positions
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine - 18 positions
University of Hawaii School of Medicine - 5 positions
University of Michigan School of Medicine - 18 positions (includes
positions at Wayne State University School of Medicine)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - 18 positions (includes
positions at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Ellen Roberts or Jan
Busby-Whitehead
Application Deadline: January 31, 2014
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Medical Student Summer
Fellowship Program Brochure
www.mskcc.org/summerfellowships
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OVERVIEW
This eight-week research program is offered to medical students who have a career
interest as a physician-scientist in the field of oncology and/or related biomedical
sciences. Supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), MSKCC Office of
Diversity Programs in Clinical Care, Research, and Training, and MSKCC Brain
Tumor Center, the summer fellowship program offers students who have completed
their first or second year of medical school the opportunity to conduct basic
laboratory or clinical research mentored by MSKCC faculty. Students in the program
will:
Gain clinical or laboratory research experience mentored by MSKCC faculty
Interact with MSKCC physicians, PhD investigators, post-doctoral fellows and
graduate students
Attend a weekly education lecture series presented by world-renowned MSKCC
faculty
Attend additional institutional lectures, departmental conferences and lab meetings
Present their summer research to fellowship peers and MSKCC faculty during the
final week of the program
Student Research Day
• Lecture
• Thursday, January 16, 2014
• 12:30 pm
• Student Presentations 2:00-5:30
• John B. Graham Medical Research
Society
Community Service
• North Carolina Farmworker Health Program
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http://www.ncfhp.org/
• Student Health Action Coalition
• http://www.med.unc.edu/shac/
• Program on Aging
• http://www.med.unc.edu/aging/
• SERV-NC
• http://servnc.unc.edu/
• Eugene Mayer Community Service Honor Society
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http://www.med.unc.edu/mayersoc/
• Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
• http://www.schweitzerfellowship.org/chapters/northcarolina/
Community Service Day
• Presented by the Eugene Mayer Honor Society
• http://www.med.unc.edu/mayersoc/
• February (TBD)
• 12-1:30pm Posters - Women’s Hospital Lobby
• 1:30-3:30 pm - Oral Presentations – Old Clinic Auditorium
• 4PM - Zollicoffer Lecture – Old Clinic Auditorium
Make the Most Out of Your
Summer International
Opportunity
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Oct. 30th - noon
Location: G030 Bondurant Hall
Lunch
Dr. Martha Carlough & Sam Hawes
Office of International Activities
(http://www.med.unc.edu/oia)
Electives Open to
MS1 & MS2 Students
ANES 403 – Anesthesiology Research
ANES 607i – IPT Interpersonal Professional Teamwork
DERM 402 – Research in Dermatology
FMME 425 – International Fieldwork in Family Medicine
FMME 433 – Honduran Health Alliance
FMME 435 – Aging and Public Policy
FMME 480 – Aging and Health
GLBE 401 / 201 – Foundations in Global Health
MEDI 271 – Puentos de Saluud
MEDI 286 – Current Topics in Geriatrics
MEDI 297 – Intermediate Spanish
MEDI 298 – Advanced Spanish
MEDI 435 – Aging and Public Policy
MEDI 455 – Research and Endocrinology
MEDI 480 – Aging and Health
MEDI 483 – AIDS: Principles, Practice and Politics
MEDI 496 – Rural Health Coalition Seminar Series
MEDI 608i – Managing Diabetes
MEDI 620 – Beginners Medical Spanish
MEDI 622 – Advanced Beginners Medical Spanish
MEDI 623 – Intermediate Medical Spanish
OBGN 411 – The Burns-Waugh Research Fellowship in
Gynecologic Oncology
OPHT 402 – Research in Ophthalmology
ORTS 444 – Precepteeship in Orthopaedic Research
OTOL 425 – Research Experience in Physiologic
Acoustics
PMED 250 – Alternative and Complementary Medicine
RADY 411 – Fundamentals of Investigative Radiology
SOCM 403 – Readings and Projects in Social Medicine
SOCM 404 – Global / International Projects in Social
Medicine
SOCM 405 – Clinical Epidemiology or Population
Health Research
SOCM 407 – Global Health Elective
SURY 421 – Research Elective in Cardiothoracic
Surgery
SURY 474 – Research in Urology
Please see Leanne Shook, [email protected] in
1001 Bondurant Hall for more information
Administrative
• Elective Credit
• See Leanne Shook in 1001 Bondurant Hall,
[email protected]
• Letter of recommendation
• See Ashley Olsson in 1001 Bondurant Hall,
[email protected]
• Letter of good standing/transcripts
• See Ann Farabee in 1001 Bondurant Hall,
[email protected]
• Financial Aid (if you are receiving credit)
• See Sheila Graham McDonald in 1001 Bondurant Hall
[email protected]
What should you do next summer?
• Be true to yourself!
• Do something you are really interested in
• If you are considering a competitive
specialty consider doing research
• What you do is unlikely to make or
break your chances of matching
• Please discuss all of this with your
advisor!
SAVE THE DATE
Summer Opportunities Workshop – part 2 –
Date: Tuesday January 7, 2014
Time: 12:15pm to 1:00pm
Location: G202 MBRB