Applied Family Med Research

Catalog description

This elective offers medical students direct hands-on experience in primary care research. Experiences could include working with analyses of study data and interpreting results and writing a white paper and abstract on a study question you develop. Biostatistical staff will conduct analyses for you. Experiences may also include subject recruitment, data entry, telephone surveys, in-person data collection, consenting patients, summarizing literature and participating in research team meetings. Students will be matched with a faculty member who is the principal investigator of a primary care research oriented study.