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Gateway

The Gateway to Research Experience
Application Deadline: January 18, 2010
Application Form

 


Purpose:  The Gateway to Research Experience seeks to increase pre-clinical student awareness of opportunities for research in a clinical area of the students' choice.

Goals:

  1. To introduce pre-clinical students to clinical research
  2. To promote research as a necessary area of growth for all practicing physicians.
  3. To help students understand research resources available at UIUC and within the Champaign-Urbana community.
  4. Recognize research by Students and Faculty collaboration at the regional and national level.

Objectives:

  1. Using a systematic process, guide the student through the research process from developing the research question to the completion of the research project.
  2. Promote a team-based approach to research with the role of the student as the research assistant.

Introduction:  Students selected for this project will be placed with experienced clinical research mentors in a process that will allow the student to gain basic research skills.  The topics that will be addressed include:

  1. Developing a research question using the FINER criteria (project is Feasible, Interesting, Novel, Ethical & Relevant)
  2. Collaborating with Faculty to write a Research Protocol
  3. Review of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process
  4. Data collection, data analysis and write up.

Students have two options for participation:

  1. They may work with a faculty member to design an original project (a more difficult track but extremely worthwhile if interested in a particular line of study)
  2. They can be placed in an ongoing research project (for those who are interested in a research experience but not any particular field)

Students chosen for Gateway may select research projects in a variety of medical fields.  These fields include both primary care and subspecialty fields including (but not exclusively) Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Surgery and Geriatrics.


Methods:  Applications for Gateway are posted on-line.  A committee reviews applications and selects those that best fulfill the objectives of the program.  Five positions are available every year.
Students may select time periods of 6 or 12 weeks for participation between the 2nd week of May and the 2nd week of August. 

Students receive a stipend of $200 weekly (not to exceed $1200).  Students who present their work at a regional or national meeting will receive a bonus of $600. 


Students interested may contact Professor Janet Reis PhD (jsreis@illinois.edu) or Bharat Gopal MD (bharat.gopal@carle.com), Department of Family Medicine.

 

 

 

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