Children’s National Research Internship 2013
See details for a great opportunity at National Children’s Medical Center! Get clinical experience and develop a mentor/mentee relationship with a faculty or clinical staff person which could lead to further health-related experience in the future!
Deadline for Summer is April 1!
The national Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) at Children’s National Medical Center is the first federally- funded pediatric emergency medicine research network, consisting of 18 hospital emergency departments dedicated to rigorous, multi-institutional research on the prevention management and rehabilitation of acute illness and injury in children. PECARN is currently hiring students for their 11-week summer internship program, which is meant to represent a unique opportunity for students to directly participate in the performance of clinical research, while also observing overall ED operations and interacting with physicians, nurses, and other health care personnel. You can find more details Academic Associate Program 2013.
Interested students should send their resume, transcripts, one reference letter and cover letter to Bobbe Thomas:
Bobbe Thomas
Clinical Research Manager
202 476 3731 (office)
tbthomas@childrensnational.org
To learn more about our research network, please visit www.pecarn.org
Children’s National Research Internship 2013
See details for a great opportunity at National Children’s Medical Center! Get clinical experience and develop a mentor/mentee relationship with a faculty or clinical staff person which could lead to further health-related experience in the future!
Deadline for Spring is Jan. 24 and for Summer is April 2!
The Opening Doors program provides undergraduate, graduate and medical students with education and training to pursue advanced study and health disparities research.
Students enrolled into Opening Doors will participate in summer seminars and receive a stipend to work on faculty-mentored research on a wide variety of topics that influence health disparities, including Diabetes, Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Substance abuse, and Autism.
Applicants must have at least a 3.0 GPA and priority will be given to students who are racial/ethnic minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT); people with disabilities; and from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Application deadline is Feb. 28!
Site: Children’s National Medical Center
Dept: Research Center for Genetic Medicine
Project Description: AIMMYoung is a study designed to determine associations between metabolic disease phenotypes and genotypes in healthy college aged students. We are looking for a student intern for a data entry position. The student intern will input questionnaires regarding diet, fitness and medical history. No experience is required. Depending on the the student’s interests, there may be opportunities to learn basic laboratory techniques used in basic research projects related to skeletal muscle homeostasis.
Contact: Gina Many (ginamany@gmail.com)
Then you should consider applying for the Luther Rice Undergraduate Research Fellowship. The winter deadline is Thursday, January 31, 2013. For information on eligibility and application requirements, check out their website: http://undergraduate.research.gwu.edu/luther-rice-undergraduate-research-fellowship
Great summer research opp for students interested in an MD/PhD! http://ow.ly/gJDWd
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