Each summer the Department of Family & Preventive Medicine has positions available for first-year medical students to do a research project with a DFPM faculty member. The projects begin around June 1st and continue throughout the summer. Each student is expected to contribute an equivalent of ten weeks of full-time work to their project. Each project is funded with one stipend unless the students successfully apply for additional funds. (For example, several students in the past have applied for and received funds in the form of Student Summer Research Fellowships from The Arnold P. Gold Foundation.) The student's full-time commitment concludes at the end of August. At that time, the student will write a paper about the project and present the research at a Family Medicine Grand Rounds. Students will also present their project results at a fall research symposium for University of Utah’s medical students, which involves students doing research in many departments in the School of Medicine. As in the past, we anticipate that many of our students will go on later in the year to present nationally and publish their research projects.
- Project Opportunities
- Project Proposal Form: WORD or PDF
- Examples of Funded Past Project Proposals
- Outstanding Student Clinical Research Project Papers
- List of Projects Funded and Outcomes,1994-present
Please contact us if you are interested in the program. The application deadline is January 31 for the following summer.
Program Director:
Joseph Stanford, M.D., M.S.P.H. (joseph.stanford@utah.edu 587-3331)
Assistant Program Director:
Susan Cochella, M.D., M.P.H. (Susan.Cochella@hsc.utah.edu 587-3460)
Program Coordinator:
Rholinda Lange (Rholinda.Lange@hsc.utah.edu 581-3967)
Click here to go to DFPM's Public Health website.