Do you know about Trinity’s Health Fellows Program (HFP)? Are you a junior or senior who would like to have some clinical research experience?
In the HFP, you will be paired with a physician or other health care professional to do a research project – most projects involve retrospective chart review (in other words, taking data from past patients’ medical records to ask research questions). For example, a recent student looked at two different styles of ACL repair to see which had better patient outcomes.
HFP runs every spring and is 3 of your credits in that semester – 2 credits for an intensive research project and one credit for the on-campus course (with Julia Bekanich) called Topics in Health Care. Our overarching goal is to prepare you for applying to a health professional school – you’ll have a research project to talk about in your application and the course will prepare you with a broad understanding of how the US healthcare system works (and doesn’t). Many students are able to do some extra work to present their research at a national medical conference or even to publish in the peer-reviewed literature.
The Health Fellows Program application is available now and is due OCTOBER 1, 8:30am (sharp!). We can take 12 students each spring and we look for students who have a proven track record of working independently and who have the resilience to succeed. It’s especially useful if you’ve had lab research experience and if you’ve taken statistics, but those are not strictly required. Usually, students do the program as juniors or seniors, but exceptional sophomores have done the program in the past. It takes a little planning to fit it in – students are only allowed to take one other course in the semester that they enroll in the HFP.
If you have questions or want to talk about the program, please reach out to us!
-Julia Bekanich, HFP director
-Kathy Mallinson, HFP coordinator
