As part of the 2012 Inter-School Research and Scholarly Activity Festival, a four-day UCSF campus event highlighting clinical and translational research, students and residents involved in a comprehensive training and mentoring program were given the opportunity to showcase their research.
The annual Student Research Symposium included students from the UCSF schools of medicine, nursing, and pharmacy, as well as medical students from other universities, including the University of Michigan, Stanford, and the University of California, Irvine. Participants are funded through UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the UCSF School of Medicine Dean’s Office, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Now I know that I want to be a researcher.Alice Asher, UCSF School of Nursing student
Now in its eleventh year, the student research program is already one of the largest of its kind in the nation, says Joel Palefsky, MD, director of CTSI’s Pre-doctoral Clinical and Translational Research (CTR) Fellowship Program, which initiated the research festival and organized the symposium.
“This program has great value in stimulating students to pursue careers in research and scholarly activities,” said Palefsky, who is also a professor of medicine at UCSF. “Our efforts are central to UCSF’s mission to be a preeminent health sciences innovator.”