Medical Student Research Office
Funding for Full-Time Research OpportunitiesPrograms Supporting Full-Time Research by Medical StudentsDoris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program for Medical StudentsThe 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. Fellows receive stipends of $27,000 plus health insurance. Further information: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute-National Institutes of Health Research Scholars Program at the NIHThis 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. The annual stipend is $27,000 plus benefits. Further information: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training Fellowships for Medical StudentsThe 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. For the 2008-2009 program year, fellows will receive a stipend of $27,000. A completed research proposal is part of the application. Further information: 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. An annual stipend of $33,000 is provided. Further information: Sarnoff Fellowship Program for Medical StudentsThe 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: Fogarty International Center/Ellison Medical Foundation Overseas Fellowships in Global Health and Clinical ResearchThe 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. A stipend of $25,000 plus $4,000 health insurance is provided, depending upon the site. Further information: The CDC Experience: Applied Epidemiology FellowshipThe 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: Year-Off Training Program for Graduate or Medical StudentsThe 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: Mount Sinai-Israel Exchange ProgramThe Mount Sinai-Israel Exchange Program was established by Mount Sinai School of Medicine and is supported by the Leo and Julia Forchheimer Foundation. The goal is to enable students to participate in translational research projects on which Mount Sinai School of Medicine physician-scientists and their Israeli colleagues collaborate. A stipend of $27,000 plus travel allowance of $2,000 is provided. Further information: |