Health Sciences Scholarly Project (HSSP)
Develop your skills in self-directed learning, scientific curiosity and team science — all while honing your ability to engage in life-long learning. For your health sciences scholarly project (HSSP), with the guidance of a research mentor, you’ll complete an in-depth scholarly project in an academic area of interest related to medicine or health care.
As a medical student, you will contribute to your scholarly project in each phase/semester by:
- participating in HSSP sessions
- submitting required project related assignments
- successfully completing progress reports
Time Commitment: Approximately three years (January of M1 to January of M4)
Phase 1
First Semester
Identify an area of interest. Projects may cover:
- bench or clinical research
- public health
- quality improvement
- patient safety
- the business of medicine
- biomedical informatics
- education
- other disciplines/domains
Second Semester
You’ll be matched with a mentor or existing project, and this is when you’ll begin the work.
Phase 2
During this time, you’ll continue research guided by your mentor, who will help emphasize the “what, why and how” of your project. Plus, you’ll benefit from monthly feedback on your progress.
Toward the end of Phase 2, you’ll work on developing an elevator pitch on your research to prepare for residency interviews.
Phase 3
Expect to draft and wrap up final deliverables in order to showcase your health sciences scholarly project at the Medical Student Research Forum!
Along with your fellow students, faculty and staff attend this event, so you’ll gain valuable experience presenting your work.
Already in a research program?
Certain projects from research programs (e.g., summer programs) or dual-degree tracks (e.g., MD-PhD, MD-MPH, MD-MBA) may fulfill HSSP requirements.
Dive deeper into our research opportunities.
Please contact the HSSP Director to explore these options.
Contact
Camrin Brown, MS
Project Coordinator for Health Sciences Scholarly Project
Office of Medical Education
or email us at HSSP@buffalo.edu