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ELIGIBILITY Participants must be full-time students at the UM and be pursuing degrees in the biomedical or behavioral sciences, at the time of appointment. Participants must be U.S. citizens or permanent U.S. residents. Only students from health disparities backgrounds are eligible. Members of the following minority groups traditionally underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences are particularly encouraged to apply: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, Rural Appalachians. Undergraduates apply as sophomores or juniors so that they will have completed at least two years of coursework in a major related to biomedical or behavioral science before the international experience. Students with majors outside biomedical and behavioral science will be considered only if they plan biomedical/behavioral science careers. Graduating seniors are not eligible unless they will be available for post-return training (graduating in December or acceptance to UM for graduate or medical school). Graduate students in doctoral programs should consider developing their MHIRT project into a doctoral dissertation. For this to be possible, most will need to participate relatively early in their graduate school years. UM medical students are only able to participate after their 1st year due to limited flexibility in scheduling once clinical rotations begin. Medical students must demonstrate a strong interest in research.PARTICIPATING INTERNATIONAL SITES
Application deadline
for Summer 2005 Please contact Kate Restrick for the application, general information and project descriptions. |