Some medical students would like to get involved in extracurricular academic work such as writing a case report or participating in ongoing studies. Others would be predominantly interested in service reviews, audits and so on.
It’s sometimes quite hard for these students to find clinicians who would have such a project. Equally, it may be difficult for the research-active colleagues amongst you to find such students.
Medical students belonging to the Sheffield Academic Medicine Society (SAMS) have now developed a Research Platform as a tool to address this. An overview is outlined below. This will hopefully help to match supervisors and students appropriately and efficiently.
It’s sometimes quite hard for these students to find clinicians who would have such a project. Equally, it may be difficult for the research-active colleagues amongst you to find such students.
Medical students belonging to the Sheffield Academic Medicine Society (SAMS) have now developed a Research Platform as a tool to address this. An overview is outlined below. This will hopefully help to match supervisors and students appropriately and efficiently.
A simple process has been devised to match supervisors and students appropriately:
This service is up and running already and we have a number of students who are keen to get involved with projects asap.
If you would be interested in finding out more about how the process will work, and/or would be willing to offer a project please read the information section on our website and/or email sams@sheffield.ac.uk. Links to the SAMS website and to “submit a project” are listed below:
- A simple online form is completed by the clinician. This outlines the project and what is required of the student. Please only submit projects that already have all the required paperwork in place (ethics approval, etc).
- Medical students are then able to browse projects that are available. They then apply for the project they are interested in via an online application form.
- SAMS will receive the application forms then forward then to the supervisor at an agreed time interval. The application form is simple and uniform to allow supervisors to quickly and easily assess students.
- The supervisor would be expected to let SAMS know which applicant they have chosen so that SAMS can inform the unsuccessful applicants.
This service is up and running already and we have a number of students who are keen to get involved with projects asap.
If you would be interested in finding out more about how the process will work, and/or would be willing to offer a project please read the information section on our website and/or email sams@sheffield.ac.uk. Links to the SAMS website and to “submit a project” are listed below:
- SAMS website: www.sams.org.uk
- “Submit a project”: https://docs.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/forms/d/1CZEGLa8xbURyLqN8ozFCEN2M2vr7-gxoMzOCA9y7lPc/viewform