Summer Research Fellowship
The Summer Research Fellowship (SRF) program is open to first-year medical students (M1) and students newly admitted to the Carver College of Medicine (pre-M1). Fellowships are for 10-12 weeks, offering students an opportunity to participate in investigation of a scientific question under supervision of a University of Iowa faculty mentor. Fellows learn the processes involved in defining a problem, formulating a hypothesis, evaluating its significance, designing experiments for its solution, and interpreting the data generated. Information about the pre-M1 SRF online application is announced in January.
Commitment
- A summer research fellowship requires full-time commitment throughout the summer.
- Students may not participate in SRF if they have other commitments that conflict with their ability to make SRF their top priority.
- The stipend for a 12-week fellowship is approximately $6,000
- Funding is pro-rated for fellowships approved for 10 or 11 weeks.
Global Health Programs
Global Health is a multidisciplinary field of study involving research, clinical care, and education with the goal of addressing health inequities worldwide. Participants examine the social determinants of health; explore disparities including infection and non-communicable disease issues; and incorporate concepts of human rights, economic development, and policy and system issues.
Where our students have worked
- United States, Canada, Mexico Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Rupublic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia
- Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela
- Bosnia-Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Norway, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey
- Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, The Gambia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Bangledesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Nepal, Pakistan, Israel and the occupied Palestinian terriotory, People's Republic of China, Philippines, Qatar, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, UAE, Vietnam
- American Samoa, Cook Islands, Australia, Vanuatu
Ways to get involved
- On campus electives including as a yearlong elective course on global health fundamentals and a global health seminar course each semester
- Community-based electives and clerkships ranging from four weeks to a full semester
- Medical French and Spanish proficiency programs
- Institutional academic exchanges with prestigious medical schools throughout the world
- Special speak opportunities as well as campus-wide, regional, national, and international conference involvement
- Faculty/alumni-led sustained medical missions
- Student organizations: Global Medicine Society, Global Health Journal Club, and Student Physicians for Human Rights
- Global Health Distinction Track involvement for those with strong interest in participating in global health initiatives throughout their four years in medical school
Rural Medicine
The Carver College of Medicine’s Rural Scholars Program (CRISP) offers a loan repayment program to graduates who match into a residency program in an eligible specialty and commit to practice medicine in an eligible rural Iowa community. CRISP is designed to help alleviate the rural primary care physician shortage through focusing on rural medicine throughout medical school.
Details
After completing medical school, you must match into a general surgery, internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, or obstetrics and gynecology residency program.
A commitment to practice in an eligible Iowa community (population less than 26,000; at least 20 miles from a city with a population of 50,000) for a period of five years immediately after residency is required.
In January of the first year of residency, $20,000 will be given. After each of the first five years in practice in an eligible Iowa town, $16,000 will be given for a total of an additional $80,000.
If completing residency training out of state but returning and practicing in an eligible Iowa community immediately after completing graduate medical education, $20,000 per year will be given for a total of $100,000.
Shea Jorgensen, MD
Read about her experience with CRISP here.
Short Coat Podcast
Is medical school your dream? Good! But the journey is sometimes uncertain, always expensive, and occasionally bumpy. Listen to The Short Coat podcast each week for an inside look! It’s totally free, and most importantly, you’ll know what to expect. Our student co-hosts tell you what medicine and medical school is really like—from the first year to the last, and beyond.
“From the beginning, everyone on the show has been informative and funny! I didn’t expect the students and the host to be funny when talking about medicine, but it is sprinkled in within the show and I love it. They do a great job on keeping us up to date on medicine and do an amazing job at answering the viewers’ questions. So thankful I get to make this show a part of my week!”
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