• Read Avoiding Research Project Perils, by Dr. Glew
• Check the Faculty Mentor List for faculty who are interested in mentoring student research and their research interests.
• Search for key words of interest on HSC Research Sponsored Projects
• Search the PubMed listing on HSC Research Faculty Publications
• Ask your fellow medical students.
• Contact the Department Chairperson's office requesting names of faculty who may be doing research in your special interest areas.
• Check the Completed Research Projects by Class for projects which have to do with your area of interest and contact the faculty who mentored those projects.
• Check the Completed Research Projects, Research Projects by Mentor 2001-2007 for the above projects listed by mentor name.
• Ask faculty for suggestions.

• Mentor Selection Form

Forms to be turned in with proposal

• Proposal Application
• Mentor Commitment Form
• Proposal Evaluation Form by Mentor
• International Research Form
• Example of Memo to be turned in with Final Paper

• Sample 1 - Population
• Sample 2 - Basic Lab
• Sample 3 - Population
• Sample 4 - Basic Lab
• Sample 5 - Lab
• Sample 6 - Lab/Clinical
• Sample 7 - Clinical
• Sample 8 - Lab/Clinical
• Sample 9 - Population/Behavior
• Sample 10 - Lab
• Sample 11 - Lab
• Sample 12 - Literary Review

• Statistical support, problem resolution:
  Betty Skipper, PhD
• Study design, data analysis, manuscript preparation and review, design of tables and figures:
  Dan Tandberg, MD
• Study design, problem resolution:
  Betty Skipper, PhD
• Deadline and submission information, problem resolution:
  Betty Skipper, PhD

• SOM UME Research Project Funding
• UNM Graduate Research, Project, and Travel (RPT) Grant
• UNM Graduate and Professional Student Association
• AMA Foundation Seed Grant Research Program
• American Pediatric Society/Society for Pediatric Research - Student Research Program
• Doris Duke Clinical Research
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Research Scholars
• National Medical Fellowships
• Sarnoff Fellowship Program
• William J. von Liebig Summer Research Program
• 2007 E. Rogers Fellowship Opportunity for First Year Medical Students