| Title | Medical Undergraduate Research Forum: Promoting Scholarship Development in Medical Students through Experiential Learning |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Medicine |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 1 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2016 |
| Completion | 03/31/2017 |
| Project Summary | Development of innovation, creativity, and critical thought in medical students is instrumental to their growth as scholars, lifelong learners, and leaders in the healthcare community. UBC Faculty of Medicine (FoM) recognizes the value of this by emphasizing self-directed scholarly activities in their renewed medical curriculum. The Medical Undergraduate Research Forum (MURF) aims to build on these foundational changes and further the development of essential scholarly aptitudes through complementary experiential learning opportunities including oral and poster presentations, networking sessions, and facilitation of critical peer feedback. Preceding and during MURF, we will deliver workshops that teach conference preparation and presentation skills and interactive online modules to help with content delivery. Given that UBC medical students train across distributed sites all across Canada, we plan to mitigate geographical barriers to participation by integrating online technologies for “virtual poster sessions”. Through these initiatives, MURF will substantially complement and enhance the new medical undergraduate curriculum. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2016/2017 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Dawn Cooper |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 6,880 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Dawn Cooper, Instructor / Co-director of FOS/FLEX course (MEDD 419), Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine |