Request for Funding

Medical Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2004

Mentor: Dr. Mark DeHaven
Department: Family Practice and Community Medicine
Room number: DF1.416
Mail Code: 9067
Phone number: 81046
E-mail: mark.dehaven@utsouthwestern.edu
Project title: Community Health Fellowship Program

*Please send correspondence to Project Coordinator: Leon Chen at leon.chen@utsouthwestern.edu

Human subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable):
-IRB approval will not occur until projects for the students are established and submitted to the IRB sometime between March-June, 2004. For students working directly with Dr. DeHaven on his study examining access to care for the uninsured (Project Access), the IRB approved project number is 0902-534.

Animal subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable):
-N/A

Project Type (patient-based research, animal-based research, or basic research; this characterization is only to permit a general classification for grouping similar types of projects)
-Community-based Participatory Prevention Research

Brief Description of Project:

The Community Medicine division of the Department of Family Practice & Community Medicine is offering a nine-week summer research fellowship for first year medical students.

This program offers four students annually an opportunity to:
1) Address the health care needs of inner-city and at-risk underserved patients in a community-based setting
2) Obtain real world clinical experience treating at-risk patients under the direction of a mentor
3) Gain applied research knowledge through participating in a didactic research training curriculum combined with a community-health agency based research project

All fellows receive a stipend of $2800, and an additional $1,000 travel award to present their research findings at a national or regional professional meeting. All travel funding for national and international projects is provided by the fellowship. Research training, research assistance, and instruction are provided to all Community Health Fellows by UT Southwestern faculty and research staff.

Note: This fellowship has been established in cooperation with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Previous Research Activities or Publications with Medical Students:

During the last decade, Dr. DeHaven has mentored and trained dozens of medical students in community-based participatory research. Students have participated with Dr. DeHaven and collaborating mentors in testing the effects of numerous community-based interventions, ranging from understanding the epidemiology of infectious disease among inmates in the Dallas County Jail to describing the requirements for disease prevention among Tarahumara Indians in Chihuahua, Mexico. Students participating in research activities conducted through the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, Division of Community Medicine are encouraged to present and publish their study findings independently when possible, but also are included as authors on peer-reviewed presentations and journal articles completed by their research mentor when appropriate.

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