M1s, What are you doing this summer?

[kitsy]

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Trying to figure this out before I get back to school next week. Research, traveling, language intensive somewhere cool? What are you doing?

 

[45408]

going to Europe for a few weeks and then doing landscaping here for the rest of the time. I couldn't bring myself to apply for research positions.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

I'm working full-time at my hospital. I need the health insurance.

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

Maybe research, maybe some kind of structured experience in some specialty.

Right now I don't feel like doing anything though, heh

 

[deuist]

If you are looking for ideas, I went to Rutger's Institute of Alcohol and Drug Studies. Med students get a free ride: tuition, room, board, and transportation are taken care of. The program is good for anyone interested in addiction medicine. The morning sessions are taught by a psychiatrist exclusively to medical students, while the afternoon is integrated with people of other backgrounds: psychology, education, military, etc... You'll get to meet lots of new people---a good thing since you've been stuck with the same 100 classmates over the past year---and get unique opportunities such as visiting Alcoholic Anonymous meetings and seeing an addiction clinic. You won't be around any junkies, but the tobacco introduction is pretty interesting.

 

[degoo_]

Are there formal part-time positions available? Or formal positions that last only for half the summer, so that you can do something productive while also taking some time to relax?

 

[deuist]

Are you referring to the Institute? The program runs for only one week.

 

[degoo_]

sorry, I was applying to summer programs in general.

 

[deuist]

M1s: you might be interested in Vanderbilt's website for student opportunities. You can find summer programs under the appropriate heading.

 

[Bubchik]

Trying to figure this out before I get back to school next week. Research, traveling, language intensive somewhere cool? What are you doing?

I just wanted to let you know about an amazing opportunity for summer research. I did it last summer at Hopkins, but other schools have it too. And you do not have to be a Hopkins med student to do it here in Baltimore.

The program is called Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Program (formerly known as AFAR fellowship).

Why do it?

1. It will give you integrated clinical and research experience.

2. Formal teaching by top faculty is an important part with lectures and grand rounds.

3 The weeks that you spend in the program count as an elective credit for the 3-4th year rotations (it does for Hopkins, and research counts for sure).

4. You will meet med students from all over US.

5. You will have an opportunity to go to the Annual Meeting (all paid for) in May following your fellowship and present your research if you chose to.

7. It is FUN. And Dean Simpson makes it very special. She is the director of MSTAR fellowship here at Hopkins.

Apply EARLY. Application is simple, but deadline is February 7th, 2007.

PM me if you have questions.

Application and info: http://www.afar.org/medstu.html


They pay up to $5200.

 

[Tristy]

I'll be travelling to Argentina and staying with my family 😀

Too bad it's gonna be winter time there 😛

 

[PugMD]

Cleaning pools in the outter banks baby. There's nothing like pulling in $1200 for 3 days work. If only it wasn't so seasonal, maybe I'd reconsider this career path.🙄

 

[nowooftickets]

friends, video games

 

[Kimka83]

Learning Spanish in Chile 🙂

 

[lexy10]

going to art school

 

[Hayden2102]

Two weeks in Bali...

 

[HuxtableJr]

Hey, deuist. Are the scholarships pretty much guaranteed if you apply early or are they semi-competitive?

 

[cgk]

Does anyone have any other websites, listing summer after MS1 research/ clinical opportunities, that they can suggest?

 

[MyNameIsOtto]

Hopefully something at my school that's both easy and pays $$.👍

 

[deuist]

Hey, deuist. Are the scholarships pretty much guaranteed if you apply early or are they semi-competitive?

For the Institute? They were very easy to obtain. You'll have a write a one-page personal statement about why you want to study addiction medicine (hint: with any field that you enter, you will encounter patients who have addictions). There are no rec letter requirements.

 

[QofQuimica]

Trying to figure this out before I get back to school next week. Research, traveling, language intensive somewhere cool? What are you doing?

I'm taking a few weeks off to visit friends and family and then spending the rest of the summer doing research.

 

[da8s0859q]

Maybe it's just me, but if I were an MS1 in the Fall, I wouldn't be doing anything I didn't want to over the summer. Relax and have a good pre-MS1 time, imo.

 

[deuist]

Maybe it's just me, but if I were an MS1 in the Fall, I wouldn't be doing anything I didn't want to over the summer. Relax and have a good pre-MS1 time, imo.

The question refers to the summer between M1 and M2, not the summer before medical school begins.

 

[cgk]

I'm taking a few weeks off to visit friends and family and then spending the rest of the summer doing research.

Where are you doing research and in what?

 

[SelflessAct]

going to art school

i'm just curious but, are you really going to art school? if so, that's truly cool and original.

 

[da8s0859q]

The question refers to the summer between M1 and M2, not the summer before medical school begins.

Oops, my mistake.

 

[QofQuimica]

Where are you doing research and in what?

I'm staying at my medical school; they give us stipends to do research over the summer. I'm not sure yet what project I'll be doing though. I've picked a mentor and we are working that out.

 

[psipsina]

My current plan is to travel and do some shadowing. My family is going to vegas and has offered to bring me and my hubby along, and my hubby wants to go on vacation with me since I won't have a big break again until 4th year to travel with him. I'm spending the first week doing camp tiger which is a summer camp run by the M1s at my school for special kids. Then I'll spend the rest of it rotating in specialties I'm interested in and getting my motivation going for the marathon that is second year.

 

[Sondra]

Back pack Central and South America. I am trying to get a few people in my class to join me.

 

[deleted77919]

I would love to go to the Caymans but have two problems 1) making it sound medically related and 2) finding something tha pays enough to where I could afford to stay there. Instead I'll probably vacation for a week and then do some research . . . sigh . . .

 

[MartianOddity]

This summer I'll have a 2 weeks vacation somewhere, either in the US or in Spain. I'll also cram in 2 weeks nursing school that's required in my med school for summer (actually 4 weeks, but I'm having 2 weeks now in february during the semester break).
Otherwise I'll try to work in the ward wherever I get a job to get money and experience/something to do.

All of this unless I fail the final anatomy exam, then I have to study for the retake in October and cancel the trip and some of the work.