The Dean's Office offers on an annual basis, with some support from Alumni Funds, paid summer research positions. These Faculty-funded positions are in addition to positions that may be available through the extramural funding agencies such as CIHR. The Summer Student Research Program provides opportunities for students to participate in research projects being conducted by members of the Faculty of Dentistry. Students who are confident that health sciences research will be part of their professional careers as well as those who wish to consider that possibility or to broaden their perspectives, can gain valuable experience in the design, execution and evaluation of a research project. For those who have come into the Faculty with prior research experience, there is the potential to engage more directly in projects of particular relevance to oral health and related issues. In addition to providing gainful employment, this program offers students a challenging and supportive environment in which to explore and develop an oral health research component to their professional training. As part of this program, students have an opportunity to participate periodically in lunchtime interprofessional research information and skills workshops that serve as well to connect students to the broader health sciences research community. A culmination of this experience is the Interprofessional Health Research Day involving the Faculties of Dentistry, Health Professions and Medicine that takes place the following November. It is an expectation of this program that all summer research students present the results of their work in poster or platform format on this day.
Applications to the summer 2012 research program are now open. Full descriptions of the projects are available here.
To apply, please send the following documents to Dr. Martha Brillant (mbrillant@dal.ca by 4PM on Friday March 16, 2012.