External Programs & Funding
Summer Research Opportunities
| Abbott Laboratory Summer Research Program | |
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| Purpose: | 12 week internship for MD Interns to develop skills in the drug development process. Interns will will have full responsibility for an assigned project within the pharmaceutical drug development organization. |
| Eligibility: | Must be full-time medical student residing in the US or Canada |
| Funds: | TBD |
| Deadline: | January 3, 2008 |
| ACR REF/Abbott Medical Student Research Preceptorship | |
| Purpose: | This award introduces students to the specialty of rheumatology by supporting a full-time mentored research experience. This is a one-year award. Students will complete an eight-week program . |
| Eligibility: | Preceptors must be ACR members, responsible for selecting their own students, and are limited to two students each summer. Preceptors must complete the online application. Only students enrolled in LCME or AOA COCA accredited medical schools are eligible to participate. |
| Funds: | $3000 per eight week session and receive complimentary registration and reimbursement for up to $1500 in travel expenses to attend the ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting. |
| Deadline: | February 1, 2009 |
| Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship | |
| Purpose: | Summer term support (a minimum of 8 to 10 weeks) for clinical investigation, basic laboratory research, epidemiology, or social science/health services research. |
| Eligibility: | First-, second-, and third-year students from schools with active ΑΩΑ chapters are eligible. Students with PhD and candidates for PhD or MD/PhD are not eligible. |
| Funds: | $5,000: one-half paid on announcement of the award, and one-half on approval by of a final report of the research. Up to $1,000 will be reimbursed for travel to present research results at a national meeting. |
| Deadline: | Proposals must be submitted to the ΑΩΑ councilor (Dean Humphrey) before December 31, 2008. The final application to the national office must be postmarked no later than January 31, 2009. |
| American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Summer Fellowship | |
| Purpose: | Summer Fellowship grants awarded to outstanding medical students who wish to purse research in the following areas: physiology of allergic diseases, pharmacology of allergy and inflammation, basic cellular and molecular immunology, AIDS, as well as other topics pertinent to the understanding of allergic and immune mechanisms of disease. |
| Eligibility: | Must be full-time medical student residing in the US or Canada |
| Funds: | $2,000 |
| Deadline: | April 2007 (2007 application will be online August 1, 2006) |
| American Foundation for Aging Research Summer Research Training Program | |
| Purpose: | The Medical Student Summer Research Training in Aging Program provides medical students, early in their training, with an enriching experience in aging-related research and geriatrics, under the mentorship of top experts in the field. |
| Eligibility: | Any allopathic or osteopathic medical student in good standing, who has completed one year of medical school at a US institute my apply. |
| Funds: | $1,731 per month |
| Deadline: | February 6, 2009 |
| Arnold P. Gold Foundation Student Summer Research Fellowship | |
| Purpose: | The Foundation’s goal is to provide an opportuity for students to work directly with patients and to become more compassionate, relationship-centered physicians. |
| Eligibility: | Students of medicine or osteopathy |
| Funds: | $3,000 stipend for 10-week period |
| Deadline: | March 15, 2008 |
| Process: | See website for application details |
| Posted: | March 3 , 2008 |
| Arnold P. Gold Foundation Student Summer Research Fellowship at The Center for Discovery | |
| Purpose: | The Center for Discovery serves multiply disabled and medically fragile children and adults, many of whom have rare syndromes and disorders, as well as a growing number of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders. This experience offers medical students an excellent learning/research opportunity, including clinical observation of primary medicine; subspecialty clinics that may include neurology, orthopedics, pulmonology and psychiatry. |
| Eligibility: | Medical student in good academic standing |
| Funds: | $3,000 plus room and board provided, students to provide own transportation |
| Deadline: | May 1, 2008 |
| Process: | Click here for more information |
| The CDC Experience | |
| Purpose: | The CDC Experience Applied Epidemiology Fellowship at CDC provides medical students with an applied hands-on training experience in epidemiology and public health. Eight competitively selected students will spend up to one full year at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. While at CDC, with the guidance of experienced CDC epidemiologists, they carry out epidemiologic analyses in areas such as birth defects, injury, chronic disease, infectious disease, environmental health, reproductive health and minority health. |
| Eligibility: | Medical students who are completing their second or third year of medical school |
| Funds: | Stipend for living expenses |
| Deadline: | December with the fellowship to begin the following August |
| Cleveland Clinic Reproductive Research Center Summer Internship | |
| Purpose: | This internship offers students interested in reserach in human fertility and reproductive biology an opportunity to work with world renowned scientists and researchers in the field. |
| Eligibility: | Medical students or undergraduate students interested in medicine |
| Funds: | None listed |
| Deadline: | Students selected on ongoing basis |
| Process: | Visit Training Fellowships for details |
| Posted: | January 23, 2008 |
| CNS/CSNS Medical Student Socioeconomic Fellowship | |
| Purpose: | The CNS/CSNS Medical Student Socioeconomic Fellowship supports a medical student conducting research on a socioeconomic issue impacting neurosurgical practice. |
| Eligibility: | The fellowship is open to all medical students in the United States and Canada. The fellow will spend 8-10 weeks conducting supervised research on a socioeconomic topic of importance to neurosurgery. |
| Requirements | The fellow must submit a final report to the CNS Fellowships Committee by December 1 following completion of the summer fellowship. Any publications resulting from supported research must acknowledge the support. |
| Funds: | Financial support is exclusively for stipend support to the student. |
| Deadline: | February 2, 2009 |
| David E. Rogers Fellowship Program | |
| Purpose: | For first-year medical and dental students for support of projects to be executed during the summer between the first and second years of medical or dental school. Half of the fellowships are awarded to projects focused on HIV prevention or care. |
| Eligibility: | Medical students |
| Funds: | $3,500 |
| Deadline: | February 2, 2009 |
| Epidemiology Elective Program | |
| Purpose: | This program provides medical and veterinary students with an introduction to public health, preventive medicine, and principles of applied epidemiology, all under the mentorship of experienced CDC epidemiologists. Students have the opportunity to assist in epidemiologic investigations, including those with regard to cancer, congenital malformations, environmental and occupational diseases, intentional and unintentional injuries, chronic diseases, reproductive health, and population dynamics. |
| Eligibility: | Medical student in their junior year at the time of application |
| Funds: | Students who are selected for the program must pay the cost of the round-trip transportation to Atlanta and their living expenses during the elective. However, travel and living expenses related to field investigations away from Atlanta are paid by CDC. |
| Deadline: | For students entering September–December All application materials, including letters of reference, must be postmarked by March 30 of the applicant’s junior year. Students will be notified by mid-July, or as soon as selections have been made. For students entering January–June All application materials, including letters of reference, must be postmarked by May 30 of the applicant’s junior year. Students will be notified by the mid-September, or as soon as selections have been made. |
| Fight for Sight - Summer Fellowship | |
| Purpose: | Provide medical students exposure to leading vision laboratories under the sponsorship of outstanding mentors. |
| Eligibility: | Medical students |
| Funds: | $2,100 stipend |
| Deadline: | See website in mid-May for online application. |
| Georgeson Medical Scholar - University of Chicago Section of Pediatric Rheumatology Summer Internship | |
| Purpose: | Work on a new research study involving pediatric patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Also, experience the clinical world of pediatric rheumatology as you accompany attending physicians in clinic, on in-patient rounds, and Department of Pediatrics lectures |
| Funds: | $2,000 stipend for 8 week period (flexible start date) |
| Deadline: | Contact Linda Wagner-Weiner, MD (office 773-702-224 or pager 773-753-1880 #3668) before May 12. |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Summer Fellowship | |
| Purpose: | The objective of this eight-week program is the educational enrichment of medical students by offering experience in research and clinical oncology. Hopefully, such experience will enhance the student’s knowledge about cancer and thereby promote future interest in the field. |
| Eligibility: | Medical students who are in their first or second year. |
| Funds: | $5,500 stipend |
| Deadline: | January 16, 2009 |
| Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) - Summer Orthopaedic Research Fellowship | |
| Purpose: | To encourage medical students considering a career in orthopaedics to gain experience in basic, clinical, or translational reserach. The student needs to identify an investigator with an ongoing orthopaedic research project who is willing to accept the student as a research assistant and act as his/her mentor. |
| Eligibility: | All medical students with an interest in orthopaedics |
| Funds: | $2,500 stipend; OREF will reimburse the institution for FICA taxes of up to $200 and up to $200 for supplies, if requested. |
| Deadline: | January 15, 2008 |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Summer Externship Program | |
| Purpose: | This program offers a unique and early clinical exposure related to the care of persons with acute and chronic disabilities for comprehensive rehabilitation. Primarily, students will assist in the clinical management of patients admitted to RIC. In addition, students will participate in a research project in a rehabilitation related field. There will be ongoing didactic and in-service efforts directed at the M1-M2 student level. |
| Eligibility: | Students between their 1st and 2nd years of medical school |
| Funds: | $3,000 |
| Deadline: | January 9, 2009 |
| Vanderbilt University Diabetes Center: Medical Student Summer Research | |
| Purpose: | This program, funded by the NIH, is designed to provide students the opportunity to conduct diabetes-related research and to gain an improved understanding of research and career opportunities. |
| Eligibility: | Medical student during summer between first and second year, or second and third year of studies. |
| Funds: | Approximately $400/week stipend. |
| Deadline: | Mid-February, 2007 |
