Research Intern - RI Mental & Behav Hlt Youngstrom

Nationwide Children’s Hospital is delighted to launch the Research at IMBHR Summer Experience (RISE) program starting end of May 2024. RISE provides exceptional summer opportunities for undergraduate, postbaccalaureate, and graduate students, particularly from backgrounds underrepresented in psychology and medicine. It will run for 10 weeks from June 3 to August 9, 2024. Our research mentorship faculty is comprised of over 6 NIH-funded principal investigators. Participants will be situated within a dynamic ecosystem of pipeline programs spanning research internships through T32-funded post-doctoral programs.

Why Nationwide Children's Hospital?

The moment you walk through our doors, you feel it. When you meet our patient families, you believe it. And when you talk with anyone who works here, you want to be part of it. Welcome to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Where Passion Meets Purpose.

Here, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are integrated into our core values and practices. We are passionate about building, sustaining and evolving an inclusive and equitable environment. We are seeking individuals who live these values and want to share their experiences and efforts in support of our collective mission.

We’re 14,000 strong. And it takes every one of us to improve the lives of the kids we care for, and the kids around the world we’ll never meet. Kids who live healthier, fuller lives because of the knowledge we share. We know it takes a Collaborative Culture to deliver on our promise to provide the very best, innovative care and to foster new discoveries, made possible by the most groundbreaking research. Anywhere.

Ask anyone with a Nationwide Children’s badge what they do for a living. They’ll tell you it’s More Than a Job. It’s a calling. It’s a chance to use and grow your talent to make an impact that truly matters. Because here, we exist simply to help children everywhere.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital. A Place to Be Proud.

Responsibilities

The curriculum will include:

1. An immersive summer experience in a research team working with neuropsychological, mental, and behavioral health data.

2. Learning about data capture (including in electronic medical records, as well as in structured survey tools and using AI).

3. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses some of the most cited, high impact research one could do!

4. Assignment of a postdoctoral or faculty mentor to support readiness for further studies.

5. Weekly research seminars and professional development workshops on active research projects, psychology graduate school and medical school applications, test preparation, interviewing and other relevant topics.

6. Didactics about data wrangling, checking statistical assumptions, analysis, visualization, and presentation of findings.

Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

Research experiences will include meaningful mentored projects that build skills and produce a product suitable for presentation at the close of the internship. Each intern will have the opportunity to work on a research project suitable for submission to a regional or national conference on which they can be first author.

EOE M/F/Disability/Vet

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