Funding for Full-Time Research Opportunities

Programs Supporting Full-Time Research by Medical Students

Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program for Medical Students

The Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship (CRF) Program gives medical students the opportunity to spend a year conducting clinical research and obtaining didactic clinical research training.

Further information: Web Site: www.mssm.edu/msro/crf/

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute-National Institutes of Health Research Scholars Program at the NIH

This program enables medical students to spend a year in one of over 350 research laboratories at the NIH. Projects are basic or transitional. Close interactions with mentors and plentiful lectures and seminars help to make this an exceptional experience.

Further information: Web Site: http://www.hhmi.org/cloister/

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students

The program enables medical and dental students from U.S. schools to spend a year conducting basic, translational or applied biomedical research at any school or nonprofit research institution in the United States, except at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.

Further information: Web Site: www.hhmi.org/grants/individuals/medfellows.html

The National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP)

This program is for students who have completed their third-year of medical school. Students work with senior clinicians on clinical research projects.

Further information: Web Site: http://www.cc.nih.gov/training/crtp/crtp.html

Sarnoff Fellowship Program for Medical Students

The program is designed to give medical students the opportunity to spend a year conducting intensive work in a biomedical research laboratory located in the United States. Applications are encouraged from students interested in cellular physiology and molecular biology, as well as in clinical and experimental cardiovascular biology.

Further information: Web Site: www.sarnofffoundation.org/program/information.cfm

Fogarty International Center/Ellison Medical Foundation Overseas Fellowships in Global Health and Clinical Research

The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) is offering a one-year clinical research training experience for graduate-level U.S. students in the health professions. This is an opportunity for highly motivated individuals to experience mentored research training at top-ranked NIH-funded research centers in developing countries. Africa, Asia, and the Americas are regions of the world that, if accepted, you may find yourself experiencing.

Further information: Web Site: www.aamc.org/students/medstudents/overseasfellowship/start.htm

The CDC Experience: Applied Epidemiology Fellowship

The Applied Epidemiology Fellowship at CDC provides medical students with an applied hands-on training experience in epidemiology and public health. Eight competitively selected third- and fourth-year medical students from around the country will spend up to one full year at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. While at CDC, they will participate in an orientation to CDC, applied epidemiology, the national public health system, and the role of physicians in that system. With the guidance of experienced CDC epidemiologists, they will perform epidemiologic analyses and research, design public health interventions, and assist in field investigations.

Further information: Web Site: http://www.cdcfoundation.org/

Year-Off Training Program for Graduate or Medical Students

The Year-off Program provides an opportunity for currently enrolled graduate or medical students to spend a year engaged in biomedical research at the NIH, with the understanding that they will return to their degree-granting institution within one year. U.S. citizens or permanent residents who have permission from their institution to interrupt their studies are eligible to apply.

Further information: Web site: www.training.nih.gov/student/pre-irta/previewinterim.asp

The Livia Blum Fellowship

The Livia Blum Fellowship was established by Dr. Deborah Marin to honor the memory of Livia Blum, and the ideals that she lived by as a scientist and humanitarian. This is a funded competitive opportunity/award for one Mount Sinai School of Medicine student (per year) who has completed the third year of medical school. The student will spend a year in Israel, first in language study which will be followed by a clinical immersion experience with the goals of advancing clinical expertise and understanding cultural and public health issues in Israel. Eligibility, MSSM student who has completed the core clerkship requirements in Year Three including Pediatrics, Psychiatry, OB/GYN, Medicine/Geriatrics, Surgery, who has taken Step IIck and cs, and who is in good academic standing.

Further information: Tel: (212) 241-4429 or send e-mail to: medicalstudentresearch@mssm.edu
Application deadline is January 6, 2010.