The School of Medicine at UNC - Chapel Hill expresses its commitment to research through providing a number of research related programs that are available to students.
Carolina Medical Student Research Program (CMSRP): Funding is available for short-term and long-term research (depending on the funding source). Students choose their own mentor and project. For those involved in summer research on the UNC campus, a series of lectures and informal meetings on research related topics augment the research experience. UNC students are given preference, but non-UNC students are welcome to apply if they have a UNC mentor. Application to the following funding sources are all done through the CMSRP:
- NIDDK Short-Term Research Training Grant
- Research Training in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
- Medical Alumni Association
- Medical Foundation of North Carolina
Distinguished Medical Scholar Program: This two year program provides an academic challenge and training in independent analytical thought to promising UNC medical students.
Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship: The Doris Duke Foundation is supporting medical students to spend a year learning clinical research. The General Clinical Research Center at the University of North Carolina (UNC) is one of 7 centers nationally offering this program. Five medical students will spend a year at UNC performing a clinical research project with a faculty mentor, and will undergo additional training in clinical research. This program is open to UNC and non-UNC medical students.
M.D./MPH: This program is specifically designed for the clinician who is interested in bringing together both clinical and population health perspectives to best serve the health of the public.
M.D./Ph.D.: The primary purpose is to develop a cohort of physician-scientists with a firm commitment to careers in biomedical research and academic medicine.
- UNC Injury Prevention Research Center: Competitive small grants are awarded to graduate and professional students, medical residents and fellows for research on injury topics.
- Salber-Phillips Award: One or more awards of up to $1,000 are offered to UNC medical students for their work on community-oriented projects that improve the health or well-being of elderly people.
- Lawrence Zollicoffer Community Health Fellowship: This fellowship is awarded to the student who submits an outstanding proposal to undertake a community health project that focuses on the health of minority and under-served communities.
- Scott Neil Schwirck Fellowship: This fellowship is awarded to the student who submits an outstanding research proposal that represents their curiosity, intellectual vigor, enthusiasm for science and research, and above all, a desire to help others.
- Bryan Fellowship: This fellowship offers funding for summer public service projects aimed toward improving the lives of North Carolinians.
- Schweitzer Fellowship: The U.S. Schweitzer Fellows Programs provide community service fellowships for graduate students in health-related professional fields who are dedicated to addressing unmet health needs in their local areas.
- International Opportunities: The International Programs Coordinator in the Office of Student Affairs provides assistance to medical faculty and students planning and organizing international research, study and service projects.
Office
of Medical Student Research
4th Floor, Bioinformatics Bldg., CB7555
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7555
strt@med.unc.edu / phone: 919-966-3997
/ fax: 919-966-7592