• Community Health Advancement Program (CHAP)
• Independent Investigative Inquiry (III)
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• Medical Student Research Training Program (MSRTP)
• Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program (R/UOP)
• Students in the Community (SITC)
• Student Providers Aspiring to Rural and Underserved Experience (SPARX)
• WWAMI Rural Integrated Training Program (WRITE)

Remember:  The summer following your first year is a great time to get the III Project out of the way.
Learn more about the III Project Requirement.

MORE SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES

Work in Cambodia

Speak with Dr. Ray Bailey or Dr. Jesse Owens (UAA WWAMI School of Medical Education faculty) about working in Cambodia for the summer.

National Institutes of Health

• Summer Internship in Biomedical Research
• Clinical Research Training Program (12-month research program)
• Clinical/Research Electives Program
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)/NIH Research Scholars Program

Other Opportunities

Alpha Omega Alpha - Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowships

Alzheimer's Disease Summer Externship

American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology

American Academy of Neurology

American Association of Neurological Surgeons - Medical Student Summer Research Fellowship

American Association for Thoracic Surgery

American College of Physicians

American College of Rheumatology

American Heart Association - Medical Student Research Award Program

American Medical Association (AMA) - Medical Student Section

American Medical Student Association - VITAS End of Life Education Fellowship Program

American Pediatric Society & Society for Pediatric Research - Student Research Program

American Psychiatric Association

American Society of Hematology - Minority Medical Student Award Program

Bastyr University - Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program for Allopathic Medical Students

Betty Ford Center - Summer Institute for Medical Students

The CDC Experience: Applied Epidemiology Fellowship

Children's Hospital Los Angeles - USC Summer Oncology Fellowship Program

Congress of Neurological Surgeons University of Neurosurgery - CNS Sponsored Fellowship Awards

Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship (Year-long research opportunity)

East Tennessee State University, Dept. of Family Medicine - The Appalachian Preceptorship in Family Medicine

Endocrine Society - Summer Research Fellowships

Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program

Henry Ford Health Sciences Center Fellowship Program -   Internal Medicine or Anaesthesiology

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - CUPID (Cancer in the Underprivileged, Indigent, or Disadvantaged) Summer Fellowship

Marshfield Clinic Summer Research Intern Programs

Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Summer Fellowships

National Rural Institute on Alcohol and Drug Abuse

New York Academy of Medicine - Grants & Fellowships

The Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation - Medical Student Summer Orthopaedic Research Fellowship

Pine Family Foundation for Catastrophic Disease Research

Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation - Research Training for Medical Students (An interim year-off program for research in cardiovascular medicine)

The Simon Kramer Society - Externship in Radiation Oncology

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Pediatric Oncology Education Program

This list is a work in progress. If you learn of other medical student summer opportunities,
please share them with us, so that we can add them to the list.