Request for Funding
Medical Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2011

All descriptions must contain enough detail to permit an assessment of the problem that is to be addressed and the methodologies that are to be employed. Please be careful to outline the role that the student will play in the project that is described. Please ensure that all relevant approval numbers (IRB, IACUC) are provided.

Mentor: Glenn Flores, MD, Professor and Chief, Division of General Pediatrics                    
Department: Pediatrics                   
Room number: E3.514        
Mail Code: 9063                  
Phone number: 214-648-3405       
E-mail: tiffany.chimal@utsouthwestern.edu                      
Project title: Patient-based research/health services research              

Human subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable): n/a

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) Basic research

Brief Description of Project:

We welcome medical students with a strong research interest in one or more of the following areas:

The student will be the lead investigator on the summer project of their choosing. Under the close supervision of Dr. Flores, the student's role will include conceptualizing the project, reviewing the literature, devising study instruments, data collection and analysis, writing up the findings, presenting the findings at national medical conferences, and submitting the findings for publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal (as the lead author or co-author).
Previous Medical Student Research Activities, Presentations, Publications, Grants, and Awards:

Dr. Flores has mentored 20 medical students over the past 16 years, and their projects have resulted in six platform (oral) presentations and eleven posters at national meetings, six published articles, four grants, four awards, and one honors thesis.