Application Instructions for the Summer Research Experience

Please visit the Dean of Student Affairs Summer Research Opportunity website and login using your JHED ID and password. You may search for positions using keywords or you can leave all fields blank to see all positions available.  It is important that you check back to this website periodically to find new position postings. If you are interested in any of these positions, please complete the Dean's application .   
You may apply for a faculty position that is not listed on this website as long as you and the faculty member complete  all of the appropriate application materials. Please submit completed copies of your application to both Michelle Moody (2024 E. Monument St. Room 1-500E) and to the Student Affairs Office (BRB 137).  If you are not accepted into our program, you will be considered for the Office of Students Affairs' Summer Research Opportunity.

Application Deadline: April 30, 2010

Research Areas:

(a) Patient-oriented research. Research that is conducted with human subjects and  involves material of human origin (such as tissues, specimens and cognitive phenomena) for which an investigator (or colleague) directly interacts with human subjects in an outpatient or inpatient setting to clarify a problem in human physiology, pathophysiology or disease.

(b) Epidemiologic and behavioral studies. Studies that deal with the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations; and research in which the actions and reactions of humans (e.g. patients or health care providers) in response to external and internal stimuli are studied through observational and experimental methods.

(c) Outcomes research and health services research. A multidisciplinary field of scientific investigation that examines how people get access to health care, how much care costs, and what happens to patients as a result of this care. For clinicians and patients, outcomes research provides evidence about benefits, risks, and results of treatments so they can make more informed decisions. For health care managers and purchasers, outcomes research can identify potentially effective strategies they can implement to improve the quality and value of care. Outcomes research seeks to understand the end results of particular health care practices and interventions. These end results may include mortality, physiologic measures, clinical events, equity of services, as well as effects that people experience and care about, such as symptoms, functional measures (quality of life), and patient experiences with care.