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Dear SDN Peeps-
Though winter is in the air, summer approaches in the blink of an eye...so all the better to think forward to what you might be doing in Texas next June in 100-degree heat and 100% humidity- chilling *inside* doing research!
If you are looking for an exciting, valuable research experience, our group, which is focused on imaging and informatics applications for head and neck cancers, is recruiting undergrads and MS1-MS3s for Summer 2018.
For summer, we ask that trainees commit a *minimum 0f 8 weeks on-site*; of course, we accept research rotations from MS3-4 for shorter spells through-out the year.
Undergrads are typically involved in patient data collection tasks, such as toxicity assessments, with q-weekly OTV shadowing of head and neck attendings in the clinic, resulting in mid-author level contributions in subsequent papers (e.g. Cognitive function and patient-reported memory problems after radiotherapy for cancers at the skull base: A cross-sectional survivorship study usin... - PubMed - NCBI or Long-term patient reported outcomes following radiation therapy for oropharyngeal cancer: cross-sectional assessment of a prospective symptom surve... - PubMed - NCBI).
MS1-3s are typically involved in imaging or dose/response projects, based on expertise and performance, with MS1s typically contributing at mid-author level on clinical projects(e.g. Prognostic value of pretherapy platelet elevation in oropharyngeal cancer patients treated with chemoradiation. - PubMed - NCBI) , while motivated MS2-4's with chops can sometimes undertake limited-scope 1st author clinical/technical projects with sufficient time/planning ahead (e.g. Quantitative pretreatment CT volumetry: Association with oncologic outcomes in patients with T4a squamous carcinoma of the larynx. - PubMed - NCBI or Beyond mean pharyngeal constrictor dose for beam path toxicity in non-target swallowing muscles: Dose-volume correlates of chronic radiation-associ... - PubMed - NCBI).
Obviously, MDACC has tons of data and lots of opportunity space, and in Houston in Summer you could see the defending World Champs play baseball, as long as you don't mind the occasional catastrophic natural disaster(s).
As I rarely check SDN or DMs, please feel free to contact my lab staff directly. If you're an undergrad, please email [email protected]; for med studs, please email [email protected], and they can walk you though our admiitedly Byzantine application process
We've had a terrific series of awesome undergrads and med students rotate through over the last 5 years in our program. If you'd like the contact info for our former students, we can direct you to our alumni who can share their previous experiences; if you're already ready to roll into H-town, please send a CV in NIH biosketch format (sample here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms/predocfellowshipbiosample.docx ).
Thanks again, and best wishes to all y'all.
Though winter is in the air, summer approaches in the blink of an eye...so all the better to think forward to what you might be doing in Texas next June in 100-degree heat and 100% humidity- chilling *inside* doing research!
If you are looking for an exciting, valuable research experience, our group, which is focused on imaging and informatics applications for head and neck cancers, is recruiting undergrads and MS1-MS3s for Summer 2018.
For summer, we ask that trainees commit a *minimum 0f 8 weeks on-site*; of course, we accept research rotations from MS3-4 for shorter spells through-out the year.
Undergrads are typically involved in patient data collection tasks, such as toxicity assessments, with q-weekly OTV shadowing of head and neck attendings in the clinic, resulting in mid-author level contributions in subsequent papers (e.g. Cognitive function and patient-reported memory problems after radiotherapy for cancers at the skull base: A cross-sectional survivorship study usin... - PubMed - NCBI or Long-term patient reported outcomes following radiation therapy for oropharyngeal cancer: cross-sectional assessment of a prospective symptom surve... - PubMed - NCBI).
MS1-3s are typically involved in imaging or dose/response projects, based on expertise and performance, with MS1s typically contributing at mid-author level on clinical projects(e.g. Prognostic value of pretherapy platelet elevation in oropharyngeal cancer patients treated with chemoradiation. - PubMed - NCBI) , while motivated MS2-4's with chops can sometimes undertake limited-scope 1st author clinical/technical projects with sufficient time/planning ahead (e.g. Quantitative pretreatment CT volumetry: Association with oncologic outcomes in patients with T4a squamous carcinoma of the larynx. - PubMed - NCBI or Beyond mean pharyngeal constrictor dose for beam path toxicity in non-target swallowing muscles: Dose-volume correlates of chronic radiation-associ... - PubMed - NCBI).
Obviously, MDACC has tons of data and lots of opportunity space, and in Houston in Summer you could see the defending World Champs play baseball, as long as you don't mind the occasional catastrophic natural disaster(s).
As I rarely check SDN or DMs, please feel free to contact my lab staff directly. If you're an undergrad, please email [email protected]; for med studs, please email [email protected], and they can walk you though our admiitedly Byzantine application process
We've had a terrific series of awesome undergrads and med students rotate through over the last 5 years in our program. If you'd like the contact info for our former students, we can direct you to our alumni who can share their previous experiences; if you're already ready to roll into H-town, please send a CV in NIH biosketch format (sample here http://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms/predocfellowshipbiosample.docx ).
Thanks again, and best wishes to all y'all.
