{"id":1069,"date":"2022-07-13T12:03:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T16:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/?page_id=1069"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:11:11","slug":"research-year","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/getting-involved-in-research\/research-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Year &#038; Half Year Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Medical students at BU Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine may choose to take an additional year or half year (<span>outside of the medical school curriculum<\/span>) to undertake full-time research under the guidance of a mentor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>There are three pathways for medical students for these programs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/half-year-research-program-bumc\/\">Half-Year Research Program at Boston University<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/research-year-program-bumc\/\">Research Year at Boston University<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/external-research-year-programs\/\">Research Year at External Sites<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Program Contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"mailto:mazzilli@bu.edu\">Sarah Mazzilli, PhD<\/a>, Assistant Dean of Research<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:msagar@bu.edu\">Manish Sagar, MD<\/a>, Assistant Dean of Research<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"mailto:anagreg@bu.edu\">Ana Gregory,<\/a> EdM, Course Administrative Contact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical students at BU Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine may choose to take an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10364,"featured_media":0,"parent":184,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7122,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1069\/revisions\/7122"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}