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This Internship is available in: Bethesda, Maryland 

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Externship Title:   Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program for Disadvantaged College Students
Organization:   USU Center for Health Disparities
Virtual:   No
Specific Web Page for this Externship:   http://www.usuhs.mil/chd/training.html
Stipend:   $3000.00
Requirements:   Who? Disadvantaged college students from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds (U.S. citizens or permanent residents) who want to:

Receive biomedical laboratory research experience

Participate in a didactic component focused on career issues, research and training in health disparities

Receeve scientific and career mentoring

What? Ten-week research internship program for laboratory / clinical experience. Research topics range from molecular to behavioral sciences.

When? June - August

Where? Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, Maryland

Description:   The ten week Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program (SURIP), an essential aspect of the Training Component of the USU Center for Health Disparities Research and Education (USUCHD), focuses on providing training opportunities for students from multiple ethnic and racial backgrounds who are interested in the area of health and health care disparities, science, and in pursuing careers in the biomedical sciences and healthcare fields.

SURIP offers students an outstanding academic opportunity to work closely with faculty mentors on various research projects. The objective of this program is to help prepare, motivate, encourage, and support disadvantaged students who aspire to obtain an advanced degree in the sciences or healthcare fields. Opportunities are available in virtually all of the basic biomedical and bio-behavioral sciences in the laboratories of core faculty. In addition, this experience increases awareness of health disparity issues, and helps students understand the importance or science and research with respect to reducing and eliminating disparate healthcare.

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