The information below was for the summer of 2023. Information for the summer of 2024 will be posted here when it is available.
- Anesthesiology (Clinical)
a. Program: Summer Preceptorship https://medicine.uams.edu/anesthesiology/education/preceptorship/
b. Description: Clinical preceptorship experience
c. Contact: Dr. Jill Ramsey- jiramsey@uams.edu or Judith Reginelli- JLReginelli@uams.edu
d. Timing: two sessions (Monday June 5 – Friday June 30 and Monday July 10 – Friday Aug 4)
e. Paid: $1280 stipend/student
f. Number of students: four students/session
g. Application Deadline: Feb 10, 2023 - Cancer Research
a. Program: Partnership in Cancer Research
b. 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
c. Contact: Diane McKinstry, dmckinstry@uams.edu 501-526-6515
d. Timing: May 31-July 26, 2023, must commit to eight of the 10 weeks (full time, 40 hours/week)
e. Paid: $6000
f. Application Deadline: Feb. 3, 2023, final application with Mentor due April 14, 2023; https://crisredcap.uams.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=LHJTNA43HDTHTEMD - ENT (Clinical)
a. Program: “A Summer Clerkship in ENT” (ASCENT) Program
b. 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.
c. Contact: Dr. John Dornhoffer, Ms. Deanne King
d. Timing: June 5-30, 2023: four-week program for students who completed their first year of medical school
e. Paid: N/A
f. Number students: three total/year
g. Application Deadline: February 28, 2023, selections & notifications will go out in early March. Apply at https://redcap.link/ASCENT_2023 - ENT
a. Program: Informal Research and Mentorship
b. Description: ENT faculty consistently will take students outside the Honors Program for clinical research opportunities. Students may also attend their summer research meetings
c. Contact: Dr. John Dornhoffer, Ms. Deanne King
d. Timing: Variable
e. Paid: None - Emergency Medicine
a. Program: Emergency Medicine Research
b. Description: Clinical and applied research in the emergency and acute care setting.
c. Contact: Carly Eastin, M.D. & Michael Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.
d. Timing: Summer, variable
e. Paid: N/A
f. Application Deadline: - Family Medicine – Research
a. Program: Summer Research in Community Medicine
b. Description: Research opportunity in Community Medicine contributing to implementation science projects to increase delivery of evidence-based interventions in community settings
c. Contact: Taren Swindle, Ph.D.
d. Timing: Summer, variable
e. Paid: Depending on grant funding but possible
f. Application Deadline: - Family Medicine – Clinical
a. Program: Summer Clinical Preceptorship
b. https://regionalcampuses.uams.edu/students/programs/m1-medical-students/
c. Description: Clinical education experience with a community-based Family Physician at multiple locations in Arkansas
d. Paid: A monetary stipend is provided to participating students to help offset travel or living expenses. Housing may be available if program is in close proximity to one of the regional centers.
e. Contact: Ms. Jessica Bursk, Ms. Heidi Damron
f. Application Deadline: February 13, 2023 - Family Medicine – Service
a. Program: Summer Service Learning Project
b. https://regionalcampuses.uams.edu/students/programs/m1-medical-students/
c. Description: Implement a quality improvement or health initiative project.
d. Paid: A monetary stipend is provided to participating students to help offset travel or living expenses.
e. Contact: Ms. Jessica Bursk, Ms. Heidi Damron
f. Application Deadline: February 13, 2023 - Family Medicine – Camp Counselor
a. Program: MASH Assistantship
b. https://regionalcampuses.uams.edu/students/programs/m1-medical-students/
c. 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.
d. Paid: A monetary stipend is provided to participating students to help offset travel or living expenses. Housing may be available if program is in close proximity to one of the regional centers.
e. Contact: Ms. Jessica Bursk, Ms. Heidi Damron
f. Application deadline: February 13, 2023 - Geriatrics Summer Research Program
a. 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).
b. Contact: Dr. Gohar Azhar (azhargohar@uams.edu)
c. Timing: approx. June – September, tentative and flexible depending on students’ schedules.
d. Paid: Yes. Students will receive a stipend for summer and beyond depending on potential and interest
e. Students: maximum three
f. Application Deadline: February 28, 2023 - Honors in Global Health Program
a. 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.
b. Contact: Dr. Rebecca Liggin
c. Application Deadline: - Internal Medicine Research
a. Program: Cardiology Summer Research
b. Description: Students can participate in ongoing projects, such as the Lincoln Project that uses a geospatial approach to develop CVD prevention/intervention strategies based on well described cohort of Out of Hospital Premature Natural Death (OHPND) subjects in Central Arkansas, or the student can initiate the research in partnership with the faculty. Students would get hands on experience in data collection, analysis, abstract/manuscript preparation and grant writing.
c. Contact: Brandy Griffin, Director of Research – Cardiology
d. Timing: Summer, variable
e. Paid: Combination of paid and unpaid positions available
f. Total Students: Up to 12 freshmen
g. Application Deadline: - Ob/Gyn (Clinical)
a. Program: Summer bootcamp for rising M2s
b. 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.
c. Contact: Dr. Lindsey Sward, lbsward@uams.edu
d. Timing: 5/30-6/9
e. Paid: N/A
f. Application Deadline: March 26, 2023 - Pathology (Clinical)
a. Program: Medical Student Clinical Preceptorship
b. Description: five-week rotating experience through five major subspecialty areas in pathology
c. Contact: Dr. Vijay Patel
d. Timing: four funded positions per summer
e. Paid: $1,000 stipend
f. Application Deadline: February 24, 2023 - Honors in Pediatrics Program
a. 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.
b. Contact: Dr. Becky Latch- LatchRebeccaL@uams.edu or Dr. Carla Brown-CBROWN@uams.edu
c. Application Deadline: February 10, 2023 - Psychiatric Research Institute
a. Program: Four summer 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.
b. Description: http://addictiont32.uams.edu/training-in-addiction/summer-intern-positions/
c. Paid: a stipend of approximately $5,000 for the 8-10 week program
d. Applications will be accepted in the spring, and students may contact Jan Hollenberg for additional information: jhollenberg@uams.edu
e. Application Deadline: March 1, 2023 - Summer in Radiology Program (Clinical)
a. 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.
b. Contact: Dr. Kevin Wong (KWong@uams.edu)
c. Application Deadline: - Honors in Research Program
a. Program: Honors in Research
b. 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.
c. Contact: Dr. Robert McGehee REM@uams.edu / Jimie Jarry, jarryjimieM@uams.edu
d. Timing: summer-long
e. Paid: stipend variable
f. Application Deadline: February 3, 2023. Must submit mentor name by April 14, 2023 - Summer in Surgery
a. Program: Summer in Surgery
b. 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.
c. Watch the Program Video
d. Contact: Dr. Rachel Slotcavage
e. Timing: four weeks after the freshman year
f. Paid: N/A
g. Application Deadline: February 10, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.