2012 Medical Student Research Symposium – April 5

All BSOM students and faculty are invited to attend the 4th annual Medical Student Research Symposium on Thursday, April 5, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in White Hall on the WSU main campus.

The symposium begins at 6:00  p.m. in 101 White Hall  (Gandhi Auditorium) with welcoming remarks and the 2012 Distinguished Scholar Lecture. A poster reception with 48 student research posters  follows at 6:30 p.m. in the White Hall Atrium.

The Distinguished Scholar Lecture will be presented by Kelly Miller, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate who graduates this year from Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine.  She completed her Ph.D. research in biochemistry and molecular biology in 2010 in the laboratory of Steven J. Berberich, Ph.D. Her dissertation research examined Induction of p53 Dependent Cellular Senescence through MDMX Inhibition or YPEL3 Expression (see abstratct).  After graduation, she will begin residency training in internal medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

The symposium is organized by the Wright State Medical Student Research Club with support from the BSOM Office of Research Affairs. For more information, contact Adam Deardorff (deardorff.2@wright.edu).

Symposium Proceedings are archived in the WSU Libraries CORE (Campus Online Repository). See 2010 Proceedings | 2011 Proceedings.

Related links:

• Research Learning Community homepage
• 2011-2012 Translational Research Lecture Series

NIH Launches Medical Research Scholars Program

A new Medical Research Scholars Program for medical and dental students will begin in September 2012 in Bethesda, Md., the National Institutes of Health has announced. The program will offer research experiences with intramural investigators from across NIH in basic science laboratories, and in clinical and translational research conducted at the NIH Clinical Center, the world’s largest hospital dedicated to patient-oriented research.

The program is made possible through a partnership with the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health supported by a grant from Pfizer Inc and contributions from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

The Medical Research Scholars Program builds upon the long history that the NIH intramural program has had in preparing clinician-scientists for leadership roles in biomedical research and incorporates the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)-NIH Research Scholars Program and the NIH Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP). The HHMI-NIH Research Scholars Program has historically focused on research in the basic sciences. CRTP participants engage in clinical and translational research. Basic, clinical, and translational research will be part of the Medical Research Scholars Program.

Program applications will be accepted Oct. 1, 2011 through mid-January 2012. About 40 students are expected to be admitted during the program’s first year. The goal is to accept up to 70 students as the program grows.

Support for students selected for the program includes a stipend and resources for education enrichment, such as travel to scientific meetings. There will be a curriculum in clinical protocol development and the conduct of human subjects research, along with seminars focusing on basic and laboratory studies and their translation into clinical protocols.

via NIH News

Research Club Meets Wednesday, Aug. 25

The WSU Medical Student Research Club will hold its first lunchtime meeting of the 2011-2012 academic year on Wednesday, August 25, 12:00-1:00 p.m. , in 260 White Hall. Students who completed the inaugural course of SMD 616, Introduction to the Research Learning Community, will discuss their summer research experiences.

Lunch will be provided on Aug. 25. Please RSVP to Adam Deardorff (deardorff.2@wright.edu) if you plan to attend.

New Research Elective Approved for Second-Year Medical Students

The Biennium 1 Electives Subcommittee at WSU Boonshoft School of medicine has approved a new elective course titled “Research Learning Community 2.” It will be listed as SMD 617 in the B1 elective catalog published later this year. It will run longitudinally from September 2011 through April 2012.

The elective for M2 students builds on the concepts and activities established in SMD 616 (Introduction to the Research Learning Community). The M2 elective provides a supportive environment for continuation or completion of research projects begun in SMD 616, but SMD 616 is not a prerequisite.

The M2 elective also supports students who have participated in research SIE’s (student initiated electives) or extracurricular research projects, and it can accommodate students looking for a research mentor during year 2. Students who have not taken WSU’s training workshop on research misconduct and the CITI course on the protection of human subjects (training included in SMD 616) will need to acquire both certifications sometime during the M2 elective.

According to the course description:

In September-December, students will participate in monthly seminars and Collaboration Labs surveying models and methodologies in translational research, clinical research, clinical trials, and evidence-based medicine. In addition, students will participate in ongoing meetings of the Translational Research Lecture Series, the Medical Student Research Club, and the Medical Student Journal Club, completing reading and reflective writing assignments associated with program content. Each student will prepare and lead a discussion of a recent research article at a seminar or Journal Club meeting.

In January-April, students will participate in skills development workshops on making and presenting scientific posters. Students will prepare a capstone project that may take several forms. Option 1 is presenting a scientific poster at the annual Medical Student Research Symposium in April. Option 2 is writing a paper on a critically-appraised topic (CAT) in evidence-based medicine that could serve as a roadmap for a future translational research project. Option 3 is participating in a faculty-mentored research project during the academic year.

SMD 617 represents approximately 80 contact hours and counts as one of two required elective experiences in Biennium 1.

Permission of the course director is required to enroll in SMD 617. Please contact Mark Willis (937-775-3814; mark.willis@wright.edu) to schedule a meeting to discuss enrollment.

Your Invitation to the Medical Student Research Symposium – April 21

All BSOM students and faculty are invited to attend the 3rd annual Medical Student Research Symposium on Thursday, April 21, from 5:45-8:00 p.m. in White Hall on the WSU main campus.

The symposium opens at 5:45 p.m., when 29 student research posters will be available for viewing in the White Hall Atrium. It continues at 6:00 p.m. in 101 White Hall  (Gandhi Auditorium) with welcoming remarks and the inaugural Distinguished Scholar Lecture. A poster reception follows at 6:30 p.m. in the Atrium.

The Distinguished Scholar Lecture will be presented by Katie Bullinger, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate who graduates this year from Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine.  She completed her Ph.D. research in neuroscience in 2009 in the laboratory of Timothy Cope, Ph.D. After graduation, she will begin a one-year transitional residency at Kettering Medical Center followed by a residency in interventional neurology at Emory University. At the first Medical Student Research Symposium in 2009, Bullinger won awards for Best Overall Poster and Best Presentation.

The symposium is organized by the Wright State Medical Student Research Club with support from the BSOM Office of Research Affairs.

For more information about the Medical Student Research Symposium, contact Adam Deardorff (deardorff.2@wright.edu). Read more about previous symposia: 2009 | 2010.

Attention: Faculty Research Mentors

“Introduction to the Research Learning Community” (SMD 616) is a new research elective course for first-year medical students at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. The elective is designed for highly motivated medical students who want to gain research experiences during their medical education.

SMD 616 introduces students to the range of biomedical, clinical, and translational research conducted at WSU ; it provides training in basic skills that will prepare students to contribute to a faculty research project; and it demonstrates strategies for identifying potential research mentors and collaborators.

Fifteen M1 students are enrolled now in the course, which runs from January-July. In the next few weeks, they will begin to contact department chairs and faculty to ask about the availability of summer research experiences in areas that interest them. If students in SMD 616 contact you, please make time to meet with them to discuss the possibilities.

For the purposes of this elective, a research experience means participating in some meaningful aspect of a faculty mentor’s research project. The research experience might include: conducting a literature search, drafting a human subjects or lab animal protocol, obtaining informed consent from patients, conducting retrospective chart reviews and other kinds of data collection and analysis, or observing and learning specific research procedures. While the experience is not expected to be a fully developed and independent research project, it could provide a pathway for developing such a project later in medical school.

Students and mentors will develop a suitable plan for a research experience involving at least 40 hours of contact time. Plans will be finalized by May. Research experiences will be completed in June-July.

For more information about SMD 616, see the course home page on MedU. If you have questions, contact  course director Mark Willis (mark.willis@wright.edu; 937-775-3814).

Dec. 2 Translational Research Lecture Explores Year-Out Research Experiences for Med Students

The next lecture in the 2010-2011 Translational Research Lecture Series is scheduled on Thursday, Dec. 2, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in Room 120 White Hall. The series is presented by the WSU Medical Student Research Club. All BSOM faculty and students are invited to attend.

The featured speaker will be Kristine Busse, an M4 student at WSU who spent the past academic year in a year-out research program at the Psoriasis and Skin Treatment Center at the University of California-San Francisco. She was sub-investigator in 6 clinical trials in psoriasis and eczema, working under the mentorship of John Koo, M.D., a key opinion leader in the psoriasis field. Busse’s talk will discuss clinical trials as well as the process of putting together a year-out research experience during medical school.

Dinner will be provided on Dec. 2. Please RSVP to Adam Deardorff (deardorff.2@wright.edu) if you plan to attend.

“Framing Answerable Research Questions” is the theme of the 2010-2011 Translational Research Lecture Series. Visit the Research Learning Community on MedU for the series schedule and links to videos and related reading for the lectures.

2010 Medical Student Research Symposium

Poster presenters at Wright State’s 2010 Medical Student Research Symposium [Photo by Will Jones/WSU Photography]

Wright State’s Medical Student Research Club presented the second annual Medical Student Research Symposium on April 1. The event featured 25 scientific research posters, more than double last year’s number.

The symposium is organized by the Research Club with support from the BSOM Office of Research Affairs. It provides a forum for WSU medical students to share their research with faculty, community physicians, residents and other students. Over 50 faculty and students attended this year’s event.

Congratulations to the poster award winners:

• Best Overall Poster Award: Nicole Zanin
• Runner-Up Overall Poster Award: Kevin Kelley & Kelly Miller
• Best Clinical Science Award: Larry Goldenberg
• Runner Up Clinical Science Award: Jessica Zagory
• Best Basic Science Award: Ann Imber
• Runner Up Basic Science Award: Gabrielle Horstman
• Runner Up Basic Science Award: Nathan Weir
• Best Presentation Award: Shaden Khalaf
• Runner Up Presentation Award: Nicole Majoras
• Runner Up Presentation Award: Sara Chinnappan

See more details and photos from the 2010 Medical Student Research Symposium, including poster presenters and judges.

Invitation to the Medical Student Research Symposium – April 1

All BSOM students and faculty are invited to attend the 2nd Annual Medical Student Research Symposium on Thursday, April 1, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in White Hall on the WSU main campus.

The symposium begins with welcoming remarks and a data blitz in the Gandhi Auditorium (101 White Hall) at 6:00 p.m., followed by a poster reception in the White Hall Atrium at 6:30 p.m.. Download the program (MS Word.):

The symposium is organized by the Wright State Medical Student Research Club with support from the BSOM Office of Research Affairs.

Learn more about the Research Club and the first Medical Student Research Symposium. In the photo (above): medical student Melanie Raffoul discusses her poster with Dr. Amol Soin, clinical assistant professor of surgery, at last year’s symposium. [Photo by Will Jones, WSU CTL]]

Volunteers Requested for Science Olympiad Clinic

James Olson, Ph.D., is organizing Wright State University’s third annual clinic for local students participating in Science Olympiad. He is seeking graduate students and faculty who are willing to help with presentation of instructional materials for the Science Olympiad students.

The clinic will take place on the Wright State main campus on Saturday, March 13, and will run from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. High school students will attend the clinic from 9 a.m. to noon and middle school students will attend from 1 to 4 p.m. Clinic presenters will have a free lunch between noon and 1 p.m.

For more information contact Dr. Jim Olson at james.olson@wright.edu.  The Science Olympiad Clinic is sponsored by WSU’s Departments of Emergency Medicine and Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology.

Science Olympiad is an international nonprofit organization devoted to improving the quality of science education, creating a passion for learning science and providing recognition for outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers. It is a team competition of middle school and high school students in areas of science, engineering, and technology. Teams from more than 14,000 different schools across the nation participate in Science Olympiad, now in its 26th year.

See the Ohio Science Olympiad web site.