by Medisid
NEVER APPLY WITHOUT SPONSOR, YOU NEED TO HAVE A FORMAL UNDERSTANDING WITH ANY FACULTY TO GET YOUR RESEARCH ELECTIVE.
There are THREE ways to find a mentor.
1) Download the pdf elective handbook from visiting students webpage of JHUSOM
Browse through the handbook to your specialty and at end of each specialty there they have listed people who are doing research in what topics in that specialty. Note their names from that and then search their email from myJHU portal using search people.
2) Other option is to go to department pages on the following link
Go to your dept of choice, in the department webpage go to subspecialty page and/or click on 'our doctors/physicians' Most of the departments have their faculty listed in this manner, or someway else. But THEY DO HAVE their faculty listed in every departments. You just have to find the right page. It will take time, so DO Spend time on it. This is crude method, but helpful to find the doctors...........If you find the doctors name, get their email address from myJHU link stated above.
3) Get help from seniors and previous people who went there under some JHUSOM faculty. Ask them for their names/email address. I was successful through this method and I am sorry that my mentor is not free to take more. Even for me he said, he will meet me once fornightly, since he is very busy.
EMAIL THEM!
The application and other informations are listed here
How to email and what to write has been explained by someone in this website. In short, email describing your status in med school and where r u from, next para write your Personal Statement in text and why you wanna do research in that specialty. Add if you have previous research, lab experience or data mining work done previously. Mention them that you are volunteering to work unpaid in JHUSOM research elective program for 8-9 weeks. Mention and Attach your neat CV.
As mentioned before in previous posts out of every 50-100 emails u send, only 5-10 people respond , with 1-2 positive response. These people at the top and they are very busy, so we should understand their committments and not take their no-reply to our emails as personal.
Happy Hunting!
Best Wishes.
Hey,thank you so much for
Hey,thank you so much for such a awesome update. my jhu link is really very helpful..But up till now I've mailed 70,80 people but none of them reply positive.I am looking for a date in January ,2011.Can some one tell me how to get the attraction of professors and associates professors so they can accept sponsorship.help me in this regard.Thanks!!!
Is it necessary to find a
Usually you have greater
salam umar bhai umar bhai i
umar bhai i have mailed to more than 50 faculty members of john hopkins but yet i have not got any response from them.plz tell me can we apply by jst submitting research elective application.
Best Regards
Sufyan Sadiq
Research elective vs Clinical elective
thanks guys these posts are super helpful.
Im a 4th (4/5yrs) medical student in the UK and plan to do a surgical residency in 2013, after completing my registration year here.
I've read in some places that for IMGs a research elective is quite beneficial for residency applications. But I only have 2 months off to do my elective, so is it better to do one research elective and one clinical elective, or to do 2 clinical electives (4 weeks each), or to just do one 8 week elective (I've already done a research project and dissertation in my 3rd year)?
I'm struggling to find an answer on any of these medical student forums...
Thank you in advance for any responses!
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Thanks a lot for your kind
what to write
Thank you guys you're doing great job over here
I still want to know what to write, the editor mentioned that someone explained what to write. Could you please submit the link
getting sponcer means...
Kindly tell me dat is getting sponcer mean they will bare all our expences like ticket accomodation etc..if its not that then what does it mean?
Hi, I can't seem to
Hi,
I can't seem to access the email addresses of JHUSOM faculty for a research elective. I need a JHED login id and password for that. Can you please tell me how can i get this access?
Thanks in advance
northwestern elective.housing required
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Thankyou