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Hi friends, I've recently been invited by a physician to do research at a medical school/hospital closer to my home for the summer (M1/M2), unfortunately the admin there wanted me to fill out a VSAS to have a formal application for their research elective, but I don't have access to VSAS yet as I'm just a first year medical student. For those who did research at a non-home institution: how did you get "permission" to do research there? Did you have to have an official application/credentialing or did you have more of an informal agreement?
I won't be seeing any patients, and I will most likely be doing non-patient facing research like chart reviews and retrospective stuff, and will be unpaid. I did some unpaid research before medical school at some hospitals and never ran into this issue. Also, the doc I'll be working with is well aware I'm a lowly M1. Please help if you have any advice, I'm pretty devastated right now at the thought of losing this opportunity because its in my dream field. Thanks!
I won't be seeing any patients, and I will most likely be doing non-patient facing research like chart reviews and retrospective stuff, and will be unpaid. I did some unpaid research before medical school at some hospitals and never ran into this issue. Also, the doc I'll be working with is well aware I'm a lowly M1. Please help if you have any advice, I'm pretty devastated right now at the thought of losing this opportunity because its in my dream field. Thanks!
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