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This program is designed and provides experience for individuals who have a potential interest in combined MD/PhD training. It offers hands-on research experience in a medical school setting, with concomitant opportunity to determine how that research can contribute to the understanding and treatment of disease. Each intern is matched with an appropriate faculty advisor based on mutual research interests. The advisor and intern design a research project within the context of the current research in the advisors' laboratory, which can result in a student-authored publication. Each intern is also teamed with a physician who they can shadow on ward rounds, and clinical service and view operations. In addition to medically relevant research, the program includes an orientation picnic, weekly journal club meetings with students in the M.D./Ph.D combined-degree program and tours of the research and clinical facilities at both the University and Cincinnati Children´s Hospital Medical Center. The program concludes with a minisymposium where students present their research findings to their peers at a poster presentation. The SURP/PSTP program has proven to be an ideal way to introduce undergraduates to the requirements of combined degree training and the professional opportunities for future Physician-Scientists.

1. Matching is dependent upon two things:            
1. Specific information from you regarding area of interest /potential mentors.
2. Availability of your mentor of choice
2. We would like to match you with a mentor as soon as possible to ensure that the investigator listed in your application is available (if not, we will begin a search for an investigator in the same research area). 
3. When an investigator is offered a potential mentee, he or she will sometimes wish to speak to the student before committing to mentorship. 
4. Upon the investigators confirmation of your placement, we will send you his or her contact information and request that you consult with your mentor regarding any special arrangements that need to be made prior to starting in the lab.