Students interested in the Cancer Care research will typically work with a mentor in the Cancer Care and Research Center or the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health on a cancer epidemiology and outcomes project that may involve conducting scientific literature reviews, assisting with study design, analyzing data, and preparing a manuscript. In addition to the independent project, students may have the opportunity to be involved with other National Institutes of Health (NIH) projects including studies in CONNECT Cancer Epidemiology Cohort Study, Marshfield Epidemiologic Study Area, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
CCRC Summer Program Projects
CCRC researchers are conducting two projects.
1) Analysis of a prospectively maintained database for patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and heated intra-peritoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)/regional therapy for peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC)
2) Analysis of a prospectively maintained database for patients undergoing pancreatic surgery at a rural tertiary health care center
Project Overview:
High acuity procedures involving multi-visceral resection, utilizing latest technology platforms are being performed at a rural tertiary health care center. These two projects will investigate the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of these procedures and the generalizable applicability of the findings.
The first project asks the research question: Are robotic cytoreductive surgery and heated intra peritoneal chemotherapy feasible, safe and efficacious in rural health care? The second project asks this research question: Are pancreatic surgery outcomes improving despite increasing risk patients being offered surgical resection?
Requirements:
Students need to have familiarity with data population, abstraction, collation, and analysis. Undergraduate sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate students who are interested in being a physician and/or attending or in the process of applying to medical school. Students will be performing literature reviews, collecting data, attending seminars, and writing manuscripts. This project is either virtual or in-person internship.
Friendly reminder, the internship is a competitive process with an application, copy of transcripts, resume or CV, personal statement, and two academic or research references. See Frequently Asked Questions for additional details.
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