M1 Summer Programs and Research Opportunities

June – August 2024

Anesthesiology: (Clinical)
- Program: Summer Preceptorship; https://medicine.uams.edu/anesthesiology/education/preceptorship/
- Description: Clinical preceptorship experience
- Contact: Dr. Blake Plyer (BPLYLER@uams.edu) and Dr. Daniel Bingham (DBINGHAM@uams.edu), coordinator: Judith Reginelli- (JLReginelli@uams.edu)
- Timing: two sessions (Monday June 3, 2023-Friday, June 28 and Monday July 8, 2024 – Friday, August 2)
- Paid: $1280 stipend/student
- Number of students: four students/session
- Application Deadline: Feb 9, 2024
Cancer Research
- Program: Partnership in Cancer Research
- Description: Provide M1 students and innovative hands-on cancer research experience in a laboratory, clinical, or community setting. Program features research, entrepreneurship, clinical simulations, team learning and innovative mentors
- Contact: Diane McKinstry, dmckinstry@uams.edu 501-526-6515
- Timing: May 31-August 5, 2022, must commit to 8 of the 10 weeks (full time, 40 hours/week)
- Paid: $6000
- Number of students:
- Application Deadline: Feb. 3, 2024, final application with Mentor due April 14, 2024; https://crisredcap.uams.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=LHJTNA43HDTHTEMD
ENT (Clinical)
- Program: “A Summer Clerkship in ENT (ASCENT)” Program
- Description: It is a four-week program for students who have completed their first year of medical school and is modeled after the M4 ENT elective with clinical rotations and shadowing at UAMS and ACH. In addition to clinical ENT experience, students are paired with an Otolaryngology faculty mentor with whom they will start a research project and learn more about the academic aspect of ENT. Students are required to give a short presentation on the ENT topic of their choice at the end of the four-week program.
- Contact: Dr. John Dornhoffer, Ms. Deanne King
- Timing: June 3-28, 2024: four-week program for students who completed their first year of medical school
- Paid: N/A
- Number students: 3 total/year
- Application Deadline: February 26, 2024, selections & notifications will go out in early March. Apply at https://redcap.link/ASCENT_2023
ENT (Research)
- Program: Informal Research and Mentorship
- Description: ENT faculty consistently will take students outside the Honors Program for clinical research opportunities. Students may also attend their summer research meetings
- Contact: Dr. John Dornhoffer, Ms. Deanne King
- Timing: Variable
- Paid: None
- Application Deadline: none
- Number of Students: no limit
Family Medicine – Camp Counselor
- Program: MASH Assistantship
- Description: two-week day-camp counselor, assisting in hands-on activities with high school students interested in health professions; over 30 camp locations around the state https://regionalcampuses.uams.edu/students/programs/m1-medical-students/
- Contact: Ms. Heidi Damron
- Timing: two-week experience in June or July
- Paid: Yes, $250/week
- Application deadline: March 1, 2024
- Number of Students: 10
Family Medicine – Clinical
- Program: Summer Clinical Preceptorship
- Description: Clinical education experience with a community-based Family Physician at multiple locations in Arkansas https://regionalcampuses.uams.edu/students/programs/m1-medical-students/
- Contact: Dr. Leslie Stone and Ms. Heidi Damron
- Timing: June/July
- Paid: $250/week (two to four week experiences)
- Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
- Number of Students: 20
Family Medicine – Research
- Program: Summer Research in Community Medicine
- Description: Research opportunity in Community Medicine contributing to implementation science projects to increase delivery of evidence-based interventions in community settings
- Contact: Taren Swindle, Ph.D.
- Timing: Summer, variable
- Paid: Depending on grant funding, but possible
- Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
- Number of students: 1
Family Medicine – Service
- Program: Summer Service-Learning Project
- Description: Partner with a UAMS Main Campus or Regional Campus to complete a service learning project. https://regionalcampuses.uams.edu/students/programs/m1-medical-students/
- Contact: Dr. Leslie Stone and Ms. Heidi Damron
- Timing: June 3, 2024-July 26, 2024
- Paid: Yes, $1000 total for a four-week project
- Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
- Number of students: 10
Geriatrics (Research)
- Program: Geriatrics Summer Research Program
- Description: The Geriatrics Summer program offers a variety of opportunities to students that range from basic science research to translational and clinical research. The program evaluates and matches the students with their research interests to specific on-going projects under the mentorship of senior investigators at the Reynolds Institute on Aging. Major areas of research emphasis at the Reynolds Institute on Aging include: molecular biology of mechanisms of aging, clinical research in cardiovascular health and aging, sarcopenia, Alzheimer’s disease, delirium and the study of nonagenarians and centenarians. There are also community-based research opportunities on opioid use in older adults, caregiver stress and dementias. Basic projects involve cellular stress and mitochondrial function in cell cultures and transgenic or knock-out mouse models of aging. Students will receive mentorship in hypothesis generation, research design and methodology, laboratory techniques and manuscript writing skills. Creativity will be encouraged, and students will be supported to test an innovative hypothesis related to aging under supervision of their research mentor. During summer, students will be required to work five days a week at the Reynolds Institute on Aging and will be required to attend laboratory meetings. They will work in collaboration with a group of investigators and post-docs, fellows and with the clinical research associate. Students should be able to write an abstract based on their work for presentation at conferences. Students engaged in projects will receive co-authorship on the resultant paper(s).
- Contact: Dr. Gohar Azhar (azhargohar@uams.edu)
- Timing: approx. June – September, tentative and flexible depending on students’ schedules.
- Paid: Yes. Students will receive a stipend for summer and beyond depending on potential and interest
- Application Deadline: February 28, 2023
- Number of students: maximum 3
Global Health (Honors Track)
- Honors in Global Health
- Description: A formal program in global health that can involve activity between the M1 and M2 years and additional activities later in medical school. Students who complete the program have “Honors in Global Health” on their diploma at graduation.
- Contact: Dr. Rebecca Liggin
- Timing: M1-M2 years
- Paid: N/A
- Number of Students:
- Application deadline:
OB/GYN (Clinical)
- Program: Summer bootcamp for rising M2s
- Description: two-week glimpse into the field of OB/GYN. Two students will be selected to be a part of this experience. One week will focus on obstetrics with time spent on Labor & Delivery and in our OB outpatient clinic. The other week will be devoted to both in and outpatient gynecology. If you are interested, please send a 500 word maximum essay on why you are interested in the field of OB/GYN.
- Contact: Dr. Lindsey Sward, lbsward@uams.edu
- Timing: 5/28/24 – 6/7/24
- Paid: N/A
- Application Deadline: March 1, 2–24
- Number of students: 2-4 depending on interest
Pathology (Clinical)
- Program: Medical Student Clinical Preceptorship
- Description: five-week rotating experience through five major subspecialty areas in pathology
- Contact: Dr. Vijay Patel
- Timing: June/July
- Paid: $1,000 stipend
- Application Deadline: 2/16/2024
- Number of students: 4
Pediatrics (Honors Track)
- Program: Honors in Pediatrics
- Description: For students who are interested in pediatrics, this program works with you to complete a scholarly research project in pediatrics. A stipend is provided to those accepted to the program with the expectation of focusing on research during the summer between your M1 and M2 years. Prior to graduation you are asked to present this work at a regional/national conference. Registration and travel expenses are paid for by the program. Throughout the remainder of medical school, you will also be asked to participate in pediatric clinical education opportunities and shadowing. Students who complete the program will have the distinction of “Honors in Pediatrics” listed on their diploma at graduation.
- Contact: Dr. Becky Latch – LatchRebeccaL@uams.edu or Dr. Carla Brown – CBROWN@uams.edu
- Timing:
- Paid: N/A
- Application Deadline: February 10, 2023
- Number of Students:
Psychiatry (Research)
- Program: Psychiatric Summer Research Institute
- Description: Intern positions for rising M1 students are available on the T32 training grant. The link below describes the slots from last summer and will be different next summer.
  http://addictiont32.uams.edu/training-in-addiction/summer-intern-positions/
- Contact: Jan Hollenberg, jhollenberg@uams.edu
- Timing:
- Paid: a stipend of approximately $5000 for the eight to ten week program
- Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
- Number of students: 4
Radiology (Clinical)
- Program: Summer in Radiology Program
- Description: This is a six-week summer program that allows you to shadow radiologists at UAMS and at Arkansas Children’s, to learn more about this intriguing specialty and explore whether this may be a future option for you.
- Contact: Dr. Roopa Ram
- Timing: June 1-July 15, 2024
- Paid: N/A
- Application deadline: March 30, 2024
- Number of students: four students
Radiology (Research)
- Program: Radiology Research Opportunities
- Description: Summer and continuing research opportunities in Radiology can be found at https://radiology.uams.edu/research/ongoing-research/. You would need to email a short resume and your interest in Radiology
- Contact: Dr. Hanna Jensen (hkjensen@uams.edu)
- Timing: Any time while enrolled as student
- Paid: N/A
- Application Deadline: Students are enrolled on a continuous basis
- Number of students: varies
Research Program (Honors Track)
- Program: Honors in Research
- Description: A formal research program that includes research in the summer between the M1 and M2 year, with some continuing activities later in medical school. The Honors in Research Program consists of a research project requiring an equivalent of six months research, preparation of a report in manuscript form in a style suitable for submission to a peer review journal, and presentation/participation at the COM 3MT and/or Student Research Day. Students who complete the program have “Honors in Research” on their diploma at graduation.
- Contact: Dr. Robert McGehee, REM@uams.edu or Jimie Jarry, jarryjimieM@uams.edu
- Timing: summer-long
- Paid: stipend variable
- Application Deadline: February 3, 2024/Must submit mentor name by April 14, 2024
- Number of students: varies
Summer in Surgery
- Program: Summer in Surgery
- Description: The program allows medical students the opportunity to gain clinical experience by shadowing surgeons, participating in clinic visits and ward rounds, and scrubbing in on cases and procedures in the operating room and other setting; participate in educational and simulation sessions, produce scholarship and gain research experience by participating in a research project with a faculty or resident mentor. Students rotate on two surgical services in Trauma, Breast, Burn, Colorectal, Emergency General, Endocrine, General, Oncologic, Pediatric, Pediatric Cardiothoracic, Plastic, Thoracic, Transplant, and/or Vascular Surgery during the program.
- Video: View the Summer in Surgery video
- Contact: Dr. Rachel Slotcavage
- Timing: four weeks after the M1 year
- Paid: N/A
- Application Deadline: February 10, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.
- Number of students: