Interested in working with a practicing or academic family physician to conduct clinical or educational research? Apply to receive $2,000 to conduct important research in primary care.

In cooperation with the AAFP Foundation and other state chapter foundations, with financial support from Pfizer, CAFP’s Externship Program funds research activities for medical students. Past project topics include:

• The Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus and Prediabetes in Latinos
• Sensitivity and Specificity of the Glaucoma Risk Factor Analysis in Identifying Glaucoma Suspect and Undiagnosed Glaucoma in a Primary Care Setting

Participating medical students will receive a $2,000 scholarship. For more information, read the application guidelines below. Questions? Please contact Dasha Sakharova at dsakharova@familydocs.org.

Guidelines and Eligibility
Each proposal must be written and submitted by a student currently enrolled in a California medical school. Each project must have one or more mentors; one mentor must be a family physician. If this person does not have recent research experience, a second mentor with research background should be identified. The mentoring physician will receive a $500 stipend for their time.

The proposal should be no more than five pages in length, double spaced. In the proposal, you must:

1. State the research question, describe the background of the study, and relate its importance to family medicine.

2. Describe the study design or education evaluation, including the study subjects, setting, and data analysis.

3. Describe the time frame for the project. (Most projects will be eight weeks in length.)

4. Indicate ways you plan to disseminate the results.

5. Itemize the budget. Each grant can be up to $2500 of which up to $500 goes to the mentoring physician and up to $2000 for a student stipend.

6. Include the CV of the student and abbreviated CV of the mentor(s). Highlight qualifications and experience. Provide complete addresses and contact information, including e-mail addresses. (CV’s are not included in the five page limit.)

7. Include a letter of support from the mentor, describing the mentor’s role. (Letters are not included in the page limit.)