Source: Buffalo Prehealth

Research Associates (RAs) are college students and post-bacs recruited by the Department of Emergency Medicine at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT as part of our clinical research team.  This summer, RAs will enroll subjects in a study on compliance with colon-rectal cancer screening recommendations among patients and visitors in the emergency department.

Based on the results of prior studies by RAs, RAs will also be asking questions about primary care practitioner visits, Pap tests, mammograms, Prostate Specific Antigen tests, digital rectal exams and tobacco cessation.

With both the research and service protocols, we estimate that each RA will have direct interactions with well over 100 patients and visitors during the summer semester.

Numerous additional clinical and research opportunities are available to summer RAs.

Housing options can be made at local college campuses.

Applications for the two sessions of the summer semester of the RA Program are now open.

  • Session One – Saturday, 30 May through Sunday, 16 August
  • Session Two – Saturday, 20 June through Sunday,  6 September

Eighty-four (84) RA positions are available for the summer sessions.

Students interested in joining the RA Program for the summer semester, 2009 have two good reasons to submit their application materials ASAP.

  1. Applicants are accepted according to the date their application materials are received – applications received after the first 84 acceptances will be placed on a wait list
  2. New RAs choose the weekly four-hour shift they serve over the eleven weeks of the semester according to the date application materials are received.

Early birds get the pick of the best shifts!

Our new website has complete information about the RA Program, the summer sessions and the application materials.

Please note the change in our website domain from .com to .org  reflecting our pending designation as a non-profit, educational research organization as a 501c3.
Keith Bradley, MD
Mentoring for Medicine
Director, Research Associates Program