The CTSC Summer Intensive Fellowships in Clinical/Translational Research for Medical Students is an 8-week continuous, full-time program that provides medical students who are between the first and second year of medical school with an introduction to clinical translational research. The program includes a summer research project conducted within the June to August timeframe, under the mentorship of any faculty member active in research at WCM or one of the ohter CTSC consortium institutions. The program also includes attendance at weekly research seminars in the department that the student is conducting research, completion of a CTSC C/T research workshop, a poster or oral presentation of the student's project at WCMC Medical Student Research Day, and a written work product. The student's participation in this program is expected to qualify for Summer Research Elective Credit (SREC).
The application deadline has passed, please check back in 2025 to apply.
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To apply for the program, eligible students should first contact a faculty member who has a research project in their field of interest to serve as a mentor. The student and the faculty mentor should work together to complete and submit the application in the Electronic Protocol Authoring and Review (ePAR) system.