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laUNCh-ED

This 1-week summer program will provide students with exposure to Emergency Medicine and its varied specialties, practice locations, providers, and patient populations. Experiences will include clinical time in the Emergency Department and prehospital setting, simulation, lectures, and procedure labs. Through these experiences, students will also learn about diversity in the discipline, providers, and patient population and how the specialty addresses healthcare disparities. This program is overseen by Dr. Maglin Halsey-Nichols

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Internship in Science and Health Training and Research (ISHTaR)

ISHTaR Team after Basic Life Skills Training
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ISHTaR is a paid summer-long internship for local high school students wanting to gain experience in public health research and medicine. Interns will have the opportunity to:

  • Work closely with a research team specializing in emergency medicine
  • Shadow clinicians and researchers in a variety of healthcare fields and locations. Examples of recent shadowing experiences include prehospital Emergency Medical Services ride-a-longs on Orange County ambulances, working with a Mobile Health Lab to assist in patient screenings and health events, touring a medical simulation training lab, discussions with new and established physicians and nurses from emergency medicine, cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, among other health fields, and chats with new and established public health researchers in health behavior and epidemiology
  • Participate in a book club dedicated to learning about and discussing disparities in healthcare. Examples of previous books include “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” “Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine” and “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”
Internship in Science and Health Training and Research (ISHTaR)
Internship in Science and Health Training and Research (ISHTaR)

This internship, held at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC, is offered under the direction of Ms. Julianne Cyr. Ms. Cyr serves as a Research Instructor and the Director of Student Research, guiding the daily research activities of a team of full-time and part-time employees, medical students, and undergraduate students.”

 

 

 

Intensive Summer Research Training in Emergency Medicine (ISTEM)

ISTEM
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The ISTEM program expands the number of medical students’ exposed to research and launching students on a pathway to emergency medicine research. The overarching goal of the program is to serve as a resource for engaging primarily rising second-year UNC-CH medical students in emergency medicine research, with the intent of recruiting physicians into a lifelong research career. The short-term goal of the program is to provide medical students with a meaningful research experience early in their medical school careers emphasizing the treatment of acute severe or life-threatening illness and injury.