Current Opportunities
(Previous research experience generally not necessary)

• NIH summer/vacation fellowships: short-term (minimum 8 weeks; maximum 12 weeks) full-time fellowship (Stipend rate $1731/month, renewable) to work in basic/clinical research settings with faculty at the UA or other medical educational/research institutions worldwide.

• Lillian Bilyu Banchi Scholarship Trust fellowship provides an award of $20,000 scholarship + $5,000 research supplies annually for two fellows to work full-time with a Sarver Heart Center investigator.

• MD/PhD and other combined degree formal and informal programs.
  
• Research Distinction Track for academic credit.

• Curriculum on Medical Ignorance (CMI), including the Summer Institute on Medical Ignorance, with seminars, lectures, and clinical exercises that explore the unknown.

• Student research presentations and publications

• Student preparation and travel to regional, national and international biomedical research meetings.

• Regional and national student research networking through the Western and American Federation for Medical Research (WFCR and AFMR) and other medical student organizations.

• Annual College of Medicine Student Research Forum

• Faculty and advanced student mentors to provide in-depth research experiences, career and specialty advising and contacts, and other support.

• Arizona Health Sciences Center Medical Student Research Forum prizes

• Arizona Chapter of the American College of Cardiology Research Awards

• Honors and Awards Committee Excellence in Research Award

• Leonard Peltier Award for Outstanding Orthopaedic Research

• Maria Mandell Grant ( Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center)

• Van Winkle Award for Excellence in Surgical Research and Supply Grants

• John F. Myers II Prize for Outstanding Research and Creativity

• Yuma Friends of Arizona Health Sciences Center Young Investigator Awards

• AFMR—Student Membership and Trainee Investigator Awards

• WFMR—Dionesia P. Bertakis, E.E. Osgood, and Klea D. Bertakis Award for Excellence in Student Research

• Alpha Omega Alpha Research Award

• Other medical specialty organization student research stipends & grants