Medical Students Eligible for Clinical Research Externship Grants

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Lynn Balfour
952.542.0130
foundation@mafp.org

Minneapolis, MN - January 2, 2008 – Medical students in the Family Medicine specialty program are eligible to apply for a $2,000 clinical research externship grant as part of the David J. Mersy Medical Student Summer Externship Program.  Medical students select a research topic in family medicine and work with a family physician mentor for 6 to 8 weeks this summer.  The application deadline is February 26, 2008.

Students are awarded a $2,000 research grant.  Students may collaborate on one externship project with the $2,000 grant divided among those students.  Data collection is initiated during the summer of 2008.  Further review, analysis and writing of the project can be completed after that.  Students are required to submit a final report to the MAFP Foundation and present their research project at the MAFP Research Forum.

First and second-year students are especially encouraged to apply.  Medical student members of the MAFP are eligible to apply.  To become a member of MAFP If you are not currently a medical student member of MAFP you may join through an easy and very inexpensive process. Contact the MAFP Foundation for further membership information. 

The David J. Mersy, M.D. Medical Student Summer Externship Program is sponsored by the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation

For more information please visit www.mafp.org/foundation.asp, call Lynn Balfour at 952.542.0130, or email foundation@mafp.org. 

 

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