VPUE Summer Mentorship Grant Program: Pain Medicine Research
Sponsored by
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Funding Type:
Stipend
Open To:
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Summer
Applications closed
Applications closed on April 12, 2024
Approximate Offer Date:
Friday, April 26, 2024
With support from a grant through Stanford's Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE), the Division of Pain Medicine at Stanford invites eligible undergraduate students to apply for our full-time Summer Quarter research program. In addition to accelerating their career paths through individual development and mentoring, our summer research grantees will have the opportunity to develop skills in clinical research. Grantees will attend a research training workshop, work closely with mentor(s) in our division, and present a summary of their research experience in a lab meeting at the end of the summer. The bullets below represent a range of the activities student will be engaged in depending on background, interests, and goals.
This opportunity is open to current Stanford undergraduates, though there are several key aspects of eligibility and program participation; see below for information from the VPUE office. To apply, please use the REDCap form linked in this posting, and indicate your interest in Summer research and the VPUE program specifically.
What you will do
Recruitment of research participants, eligibility interviews, and scheduling;
Conducting research procedures including direct supervised interaction with individuals who have chronic pain conditions, quantitative sensory testing (thermal and mechanical pain testing), genetics sample collection, questionnaire and interview assessments, phone assessment of pain and function, data abstraction from medical records, and assisting with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans
Data analysis including data cleaning, calculation of scores and aggregate summaries, MRI data processing, and statistical analysis
Study management including preparation of study materials, administrative tracking, paradigm design and trouble-shooting
Preparation of conference abstracts, manuscripts, presentations, and project summaries. In addition, students receive formal online course module training in HIPAA, CITI and Responsible Conduct in Human Subjects Research
Eligibility and Requirements:
Student Eligibility
Policies for Students Participating in ALL Research
Stipends, prizes, or awards paid to undergraduate students who are receiving other forms of financial aid for any purpose are a form of financial assistance and may require adjustment to a student's scholarship eligibility, and/or adjustment to their overall cost of attendance. The Financial Aid Office has the responsibility to determine whether adjustments are necessary and it's the individual responsibility of the student to contact the Financial Aid Office about the impact of their grant to their overall cost of attendance.
Student athletes should confirm their eligibility and the impact of any awarded stipend on their athletic eligibility by contacting the Compliance Services Office prior to accepting any VPUE funding.
Policies for Students Participating in Full-Time Research
Availability: Full-time opportunities may only be offered during the Summer Quarter.
Time Commitment: Full-time means devoting 35+ hours/week for 10 consecutive weeks, i.e., it is the student's primary activity that quarter.
Full-time VPUE Faculty/Department Grant student recipients are not permitted to engage in another full-time internship, job, or volunteer opportunity (whether funded by Stanford or otherwise), unless their faculty mentors or program mentors have approved these arrangements.
As a reminder, VPUE grant recipients who are planning on concurrently participating in another Stanford program should also abide by the funding and program policies of the sponsoring unit.
Enrollment & Academic Standing
Students must be enrolled in units while using grant funding, except during the Summer.
Students must be in the undergraduate (not graduate) tuition group while using grant funding.
Please refer to this Registrar webpage for details on when coterm students are switched to graduate tuition.
Students may not receive both academic units and a stipend for any single project activity.
Students may not be serving a suspension.
Students may not be on a Leave of Absence (LOA) while using grant funding. Students who have been on a LOA for three (3) consecutive quarters prior to the funding period are not eligible (e.g., Autumn, Winter and Spring for full-time summer grants).
VPUE does not use a GPA requirement for student eligibility, nor does VPUE encourage the use of GPA as a criterion for inclusion in a research opportunity.