Other Opportunities
This page is dedicated to medical students seeking professional, volunteer, paid, and unpaid opportunities.
The Lorraine Stanfield Primary Care Scholarship
The Lorraine Stanfield Primary Care Scholarship
The Lorraine Stanfield Primary Care Scholarship is dedicated to supporting young medical career professionals who are interested in primary care, education, and community health. The scholarship will provide a learning environment with the opportunity for individuals to contribute meaningful work to the mission of the organization.
2026 Student Summer Fellowships
2026 Student Summer Fellowships
Open call for 2026 summer projects
Gold Student Summer Fellowships support medical students in a research or service project that will help them develop skills to become a humanistic, relationship-centered physician. The fellowship includes up to $4,000 to support a project over a 10-week period.
Medical Student Individual Interviews
Medical Student Individual Interviews
Exploring a Dissonance: A Qualitative Exploration of Students’ and Faculty Perceptions of UME’s Purposes
Help Us Improve Medical Education: We are researching the challenges of learning in medical school and invite both students and faculty to share their perspectives. Your feedback in a 60 minute Zoom interview will help us enhance the overall learning experience.
Additional Study Details:
- Completely Confidential: Your participation is confidential, voluntary, and will have no impact on your academic or professional standing.
- De-identified Data: Sessions will be recorded, but all responses will be transcribed and de-identified.
- Low Risk: Only the research team will have access to participant identities. The risk to you is very low.
After reading the Research Information Sheet below, if you are interested in participating in this study: Please complete this form, and we will contact you to schedule a session.
News from Global Health Program at the School of Medicine
News from Global Health Program at the School of Medicine
Are you interesting in learning about Ayurvedic medicine in India? Or Tibetan and Himalayan medicine in Nepal? The following experiences are now available to BU medical students as a 4-week global health (credited) elective or a summer experience (between first and second year). The experiences were made available due to a BU faculty member’s connection to the programs. Questions? Contact Ana Gregory.
Excellence in Research Mentorship
BU Chobanian & Avedisian SOM Excellence in Research Mentorship Award: Medical Students or GMS Students
Excellence in Research Mentorship Award: Medical Students or GMS students recognizes BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty member who has been an exceptional research mentor to BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine medical and/or graduate students in a range of research activities that include but are not limited to biomedical research, clinical research, educational research.
Categories:
- MD – Research mentor to medical students
- GMS – Research mentor to PhD and/or Master’s students
Eligibility:
- All BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty who are involved in mentoring BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine medical and/or graduate students for their research projects and have been faculty at least 3 years.
- Each category of award is a lifetime achievement award; thus, cannot be a previous category winner, however, is eligible for other category (i.e. MD category winner is eligible for GMS & vice versa).
Criteria for nomination: Though these criteria are not exhaustive, competitive nominees will have demonstrated some of the following:
- Provide valuable guidance and support throughout the research project(s).
- Committed to students’ career development, and professional development
- Enhance the student’s research skills, including experimental techniques, data analysis, problem-solving and scientific writing.
- Inspire diverse students by being a role model within the academic and research community.
- Receive positive feedback from students regarding the research mentorship experiences.
- Assist student’s research output and involvement in research publications at conferences or other scholarly activities.
Who can nominate: Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Students and recent graduates
Nomination Process: A formal nomination letter addressing the most outstanding research mentoring attributes of the faculty based on above criteria should be submitted to BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Awards Committee (camedfao@bu.edu).
The nomination letter should not exceed two pages with minimum font 11 point and must include:
- Nominee’s name and the academic status (i.e. M1, M2, PhD candidate, Master’s students or recent graduate -including graduation year)
- Length and frequency of research mentorship (i.e. one year every day, one day/week for one year, etc.)
Endocrine Society's Medical School Engagement Program
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Endocrine Society’s Medical School Engagement Program
BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Selected as Participant in Endocrine Society’s Medical School Engagement Program
Eleven universities awarded spots in inaugural class
- Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine will be one of 11
participating colleges and universities in the Endocrine Society’s 2025–2026 Medical
School Engagement Program class.
- The Endocrine Society launched the Medical School Engagement Program in 2024 to
encourage more medical students to pursue careers in endocrinology. Endocrinologists
are specialists who unravel the mysteries of hormone disorders to care for patients and
cure disease. They treat conditions including diabetes, obesity, thyroid disorders,
osteoporosis, infertility, growth problems, and menopausal symptoms.
Program awardees will receive resources and opportunities to show students the clinical
and intellectual vibrancy of endocrinology.
- During the 2025–2026 academic year, BU and ten other medical schools will receive
support for endocrinology-focused initiatives, including:
– Providing funding to support faculty-led Endocrinology Interest Groups for medical
students highlighting the best of endocrine practice and research
– Supporting two Excellence in Endocrinology Awards at each institution
– Funding attendance at the Society’s annual meeting, ENDO, for students from each participant medical school to participate in Endocrine Mentor Day and meet with Society leaders. The program aims to address the shortage of U.S. medical students entering the
endocrinology field. This shortage is exacerbated by the declining number of practicing
endocrinologists in the United States. More endocrinologists are needed to treat a
rapidly growing number of people with endocrine-related diseases.
- “Timely, ongoing, and engaging mentorship with medical students—starting early, and
continuing through their educational careers—can play a significant role in increasing
interest in a specialty,” said Dr. Robert W. Lash, the Society’s Chief Medical Officer. “Our
goal is to increase medical students’ interest and enthusiasm in endocrinology as their
career choice.”
The Endocrine Society is the world’s oldest and largest organization of scientists
devoted to hormone research and physicians who care for people with hormone-related
conditions. The Society has more than 18,000 members, including scientists, physicians,
educators, nurses and students in 122 countries. For more information, visit: more information
- Boston Medical Center and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of
Medicine are committed to serving underserved populations and advancing diversity,
equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). With this mission in mind, we provide a rich
learning environment that emphasizes health disparities and equitable care. Given that
more than 25% of our medical students pursue internal medicine, we recognize a strong
opportunity to cultivate interest in endocrinology.
- Endocrine Society MSEP announcement flyer for medical students_BU
- Media Contact:
Aysegul Bulut, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition
Boston Medical Center / BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Email: aysegul.bulut@bmc.or
Interprofessional Collaboration Opportunity
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Interprofessional Collaboration Opportunity!
Hello! My name is Rebecca Butler, and I am a second-year MS-SLP student at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. I’m passionate about interprofessional collaboration and I would love your help to advocate for it. In Boston, we have the amazing opportunity of learning alongside students in so many professions, but we don’t always get to cross-communicate with each other about what we’re learning while we’re learning it. This means that we often first encounter each other in the hospital with either preconceived ideas about what different specialties do or no idea at all. Together with students from schools including Harvard, the MGH Institute of Health Professions, Tufts, Boston College, MCPHS, MassBay, and rehabilitation therapy programs at Boston University, (and hopefully you as well!), we would like to change that. We want to host an informal peer-to-peer collaborative event to help healthcare students across schools in Boston better understand what it is we each study all day. This would give us the space to share insights on our field of study, build relationships with one another, and discuss how we can best serve our patients. If you want to help advocate for building a more collaborative healthcare culture (or if you just want to learn more), please reach out to me at rbutler1@mghihp.edu. We would love to have you!