Program Overview
The purpose of the M-STREAM program is to provide an intense, mentored summer research training experience in geriatric neuropsychiatry to medical students followed by sustained efforts at continuing mentoring and research support during subsequent years of medical school.
Student participants will have an opportunity to experience first-hand the excitement of cutting edge research. Selected trainees will spend 10 weeks working closely with a faculty mentor(s) on a research project in which the student will learn the basic elements of experimental design, research methodology, and interpretation of experimental data.
Faculty mentors will be encouraged to enhance the student’s summer research experience with the inclusion of a variety of educational didactic activities, such as research seminars, journal clubs, writing skill workshops, or other formal learning opportunities, based on the available resources at their individual institutions. This enhanced research experience will optimally provide students a greater ability to grasp important research concepts, and improve their critical thinking with regard to the literature and their own studies.
Additionally, efforts will be made to provide student participants with some clinical exposure in geriatric neuropsychiatry, in order to offer them a greater understanding of the translational impact of research (- i.e., from bench to bedside to community).
Student participants will have an opportunity to experience first-hand the excitement of cutting edge research. Selected trainees will spend 10 weeks working closely with a faculty mentor(s) on a research project in which the student will learn the basic elements of experimental design, research methodology, and interpretation of experimental data.
Faculty mentors will be encouraged to enhance the student’s summer research experience with the inclusion of a variety of educational didactic activities, such as research seminars, journal clubs, writing skill workshops, or other formal learning opportunities, based on the available resources at their individual institutions. This enhanced research experience will optimally provide students a greater ability to grasp important research concepts, and improve their critical thinking with regard to the literature and their own studies.
Additionally, efforts will be made to provide student participants with some clinical exposure in geriatric neuropsychiatry, in order to offer them a greater understanding of the translational impact of research (- i.e., from bench to bedside to community).