Interns gain hands-on experience in biomedicine, conduct hypothesis-driven research on a topic of their choosing, learn directly from physician-scientists, prepare for the medical school admissions process, and improve technical laboratory skills.
This internship program is an immersive opportunity perfect for pre-med undergraduate students interested in translational sciences and pursuing research in their medical career. Ideal candidates will be interested in pursuing MD, DO, MD/PhD, or biomedical-focused PhD degrees. Based on the medical interests specified in the application, interns will be placed in a lab under the guidance of a full-time research faculty member and their respective team. Lab placements offer wet lab (cell culture, mouse model, etc.) and/or dry lab (data analysis, coding, etc.) research opportunities. One of the main objectives of research at COM-P is to bring research breakthroughs from the lab bench to the patient bedside, so most full-time research faculty focus on precision medicine, novel therapeutics, potential medication treatments, and medical devices.
Please note that this is not a clinically focused internship. The internship team is happy to connect interns to shadowing and clinical opportunities, but those engagements would be pursued outside of the formal internship.