2012 Summer Studentship Program Projects on Innovation in Medical Education

Announcement of Selected Projects

This year, we received numerous applications for our Summer Studentship Program. The selection committee reviewed each application and considered the impact that the project would have in each of the following areas:

Relevance to UGME
Relevance to Curriculum
Important area requiring improvement
Impact on students
Ability to be generalized
Innovation
Feasibility

The selected projects and supervisors are listed below:

Guidelines

The Undergraduate Medical Education office is sponsoring 10 projects this summer. The goal of the project should be focused on improving the UGME Program. Preference will be given to projects that will directly impact or improve the curriculum.

A selection committee will review the project proposals and select the ten projects that will have the most impact on improving the curriculum. The supervisors whose projects are selected will be notified and the descriptions will be posted on our website. Students will then be invited to apply to the Summer Studentship Program for the project of their choice.

Note:

A $5,000 stipend will be awarded to the projects that will directly impact, or improve on curriculum.
All students and supervisors will be contacted advising them of the results by mid April 2012.
It is mandatory for students to present a poster of their project at a forum to be held in the early fall of 2012.
No funding from the UGME office will be provided for supplies and posted board.
The studentship must be exactly 10 weeks in duration, to be completed between
June 11 and August 24, 2012.

Students

Applications for the program will be centralized this year. Students will send their application to Heather Summers by email hsummers@uottawa.ca or by regular mail: Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Rd, room 2045, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8M5

Only those students who are enrolled in first or second year in the Undergraduate Medical Education Program at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa will be eligible for this studentship.

Note:

You may apply to up to 3 projects. Only one application package is required, and must include the Summer Studentship Application Form, a void cheque and your CV. This package is due March 5, 2012. Please do not contact the supervisor of the project at this point.
Once all applications are received, a selection committee will review the applications and determine the successful students.

Item	Responsible	Due Date
Project description	Supervisor	Done
Project selection	UGME	By mid February, 2012
Student application	Student	March 5, 2012
Student selection	UGME / Supervisors	By mid April 2012
Poster presentation	Student	Early fall 2012

(Please note that this project is separate and independent from a similar summer student program sponsored by the Research Office.)