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Student Research Contact Information:
Shamar Jones - Research Advisor

 


 

UCLA CTSI Summer Program for Professional Students

The Health Disparities Summer Program exposes medical, dental and nursing students to a variety of projects and didactic seminars highlighting research methods and issues related to disparities research, including ethical issues, community-based participatory research and health policy. Students spend eight weeks in a research experience under the direct mentorship of a UCLA and/or Drew/UCLA faculty member allowing them to explore potential careers in health disparities and/or minority health. This opportunity is reserved for DGSOM and Charles R. Drew Medical Students only.

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Family Medicine Summer Fellowship

The Fellowship focuses on research in the field of family medicine, including access to care, quality of care, and treatment of chronic diseases. To qualify, the student must have successfully completed the first year of medical school. The student is expected to actively engage in all aspects of the proposed research project, including lab meetings, journal clubs, conferences, etc. The final product of the summer research is a first-author poster, prepared by the student and presented at the Josiah Brown Research Fair.

Fellowship Information Sheet: 

For more information please contact bzolkin@mednet.ucla.edu

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Global STTP (Program currently on pause do to COVID-19 Pandemic)

This program offers funded opportunities for students to participate in mentored research projects over the summer after completing their first year of medical school. This is an eight-week program, during which students typically spend six weeks at a global partner site contributing to a research project. UCLA faculty have partnerships at a wide range of global sites, including in Eastern, Western, and Southern Africa; across Asia; and in South America. Research projects can be carried out across a wide range of disciplines (e.g., surgery, ophthalmology, pediatrics, infectious diseases, medical ethics, and public health), as long as appropriate mentorship is available.

 

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Internal Medicine Chief’s Fellowship

A unique clinical and research opportunity that takes place between the first and second year of medical school. Students will be matched with a mentor team comprised of faculty and resident mentors in the student’s identified area of interest. In conjunction with their faculty and resident mentors, students will design a summer project.  Projects may incorporate several or any one of the following: basic science research, translational research, clinical research, healthcare services or quality research, or clinical patient interactions whether in the clinic or the inpatient setting.  The fellowship also incorporates a longitudinal didactic curriculum comprised of a series of dinners with the resident and faculty mentors aimed at generating discussion and education about the variety of career options in the field of internal medicine. This opportunity is only open to David Geffen School of Medicine students

For more information please contact Ethan L Greenblatt, MD. egreenblatt@mednet.ucla.edu or Samuel B. Jackson, MD sbjackson@mednet.ucla.edu

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Jim Slotnick Fellowship in Medicine

The Jim Slotnick Fellowship in Medicine offers two deserving medical students from UCLA the opportunity to serve a paid Fellowship at Saban Community Clinic. The Fellowship experience includes first hand exposure to history taking, physical exam, assessment and treatment of a variety of acute and chronic medical conditions, in addition to exposure to psychiatry and behavioral health services provided at the clinic. Fellows will also have an opportunity to work with a medical outreach team focused on connecting homeless individuals to medical care, housing, case management, and mental health services .  Fellows work closely with Saban clinical faculty and staff, as well as faculty from Cedars Sinai and Kaiser Permanente .  Development and implementation of a Quality Improvement Project is also part of the Fellowship experience.                   

For more information please contact SNJones@mednet.ucla.edu

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Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program

MSTAR is an NIH-funded, nationally-competitive summer research program that provides medical students research support and training in aging and geriatrics. Program directors work with students to match them with successful mentors in the field, with the goal of encouraging medical students to consider careers in aging research and academic medicine. Students spend 8-12 weeks in a structured research experience that includes mentored research in any research genre (e.g., clinical, health services, clinical epidemiology, basic science) related to older adults, lectures on career development in academic and geriatric medicine, and weekly clinical rotations at sites throughout West LA. The program helps students develop skills in oral presentations and writing research abstracts. Students are strongly encouraged and supported to present their work at national meetings including the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting.

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Psychiatry Summer Fellowship

Offers placement in research projects in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience.  Medical students work with faculty mentors interested in psychiatry, choosing child, adolescent, adult, or geriatric psychiatry as their main focus.  The final product of the summer research is a first-author poster, prepared by the student and presented at the Josiah Brown Research Fair. This opportunity is only open to David Geffen School of Medicine students

Psychiatry Summer Fellowship Information Sheet

For more information please contact MStuber@mednet.ucla.edu

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Short Term Training Program

STTP is a UCLA medical student research program that occurs during the summer between the first and second years in medical school. To participate in STTP, the student must identify a participating UCLA professor and obtain their agreement to serve as his/her STTP mentor. Only mentors holding Professorial faculty appointments may be considered; Clinical Instructors may not be primary mentors. This opportunity is only open to David Geffen School of Medicine students

2021 Application

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Summer Urban Fellowship

Teaches skills in community needs assessment and development of models in which to implement and evaluate innovative programs to empower communities.  Health policy advocacy is also covered.  To qualify, the student must have successfully completed the first year of medical school. The student is expected to actively engage in all aspects of the proposed research project, including lab meetings, journal clubs, conferences, etc. Final products of the summer research are first-author poster, prepared by the student and presented at the Josiah Brown Research Fair.

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Important information for students seeking independent grant funding.

 

Extramural grant proposals submitted without research faculty mentor, Dean's Office and the UCLA Office of Contract and Grant Administration (OCGA) approval cannot be accepted or processed by the Dean's Office for funds management and disbursement.

 

If you are thinking of applying to an external research summer opportunity or yearlong research opportunities that requires a formal grant proposal application or the university receiving and administrating grant funds, please discuss with your faculty research mentor, assistant dean, or program director before you begin the proposal application process so they can determine if you will need approval from the UCLA Office of Contract and Grant Administration (OCGA) before submitting.

 

All outgoing grants must follow strict university guidelines and protocols and must be approved by OCGA before submitting. All grants processed through OCGA require multiple signatures by leadership prior to submission (UCLA clinical department chair/division, medical school Dean, etc).  Only OCGA has the authority for agreements with government, non-profit, and higher education organizations.

 

All UCLA grants must be approved by OCGA before they are submitted to outside funders. OCGA assists the campus research community in reviewing, approving, and submitting proposal applications and negotiating and executing contracts and grants from government and non-profit sponsors.

 

 

 


 

External Summer Opportunities

Our office receives many notices about external opportunities for medical students, and we have created the following area of the website to post these opportunities. If you would like to discuss any of these, please feel free to contact Shamar Jones

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