# Short-Term Training for Medical Students in Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research

> **NIH NIH T35** · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · 2020 · $119,556

## Abstract

The University of Florida, College of Medicine has a long tradition and record of accomplishments in the
training of medical students for careers in academic medicine and research. This application is a resubmission
of a competitive renewal of a T35 Short-Term Training for Medical Students in Cardiovascular and Pulmonary
Research that was first awarded to the College of Medicine in 1981 and now in its 35th year. The purpose of
the training grant is to provide intensive, short-term (2.5 month) training in research for 20 first year medical
students (MS1) whose projects focus on heart, lung, and blood topics that will be conducted under the
guidance of faculty mentors who have a proven record of outstanding research and training of pre-doctoral and
post-doctoral medical students and graduate students. As described in the Backgound section, the Class of
2021will follow the new medical curriculum inaugurated the Fall of 2013 that includes the Discovery Pathways
Program (DPP). In the first semester, all MS1s take the required course “Research and Discovery
Foundations of Medicine” that includes instruction in fundamentals of R& D and includes tools for literature
surveys, generating hypothesis driven questions, biomedical statistics, scientific report writing, interpreting
evidenced based medicine guidelines, and responsible conduct of research. This required course prepares
the students to enter the Medical Student Research Program (MSRP) and to participate in the T35 training
grant program. All 142 medical students in the Class of 2021 will have the opportunity to select a research and
discovery (R&D) project and faculty mentor from the hundreds of projects grouped within one of the seven
Discovery Tracks, and they will initiate their R&D projects in the 10-weeks of the summer following completion
of the Spring semester courses. This broad range of potential research topics is made possible because of the
diversity of the research areas of the more than 1,100 faculty members of the College of Medicine, including
the 46 T35 Program Faculty. The students who are selected to participate in the T35 program receive
additional enrichment in R&D training through weekly T35 student group meetings, peer presentations of
research projects, extensive training in preparing abstracts, posters and grant proposals, attending special
lectures and participating in activities with key personnel from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
During the 2nd and 3rd years of medical classes, the T35 students and their classmates can continue meeting
with their faculty mentor and advancing their research projects through various mechanisms including elective
courses, seminars, research group meetings. During the 4th year, T35 students and their classmates take two
4-week elective courses to complete any remaining parts of their R&D projects to generate a capstone
scholarly work product such as a research journal paper. Long term follow up of T35 trainees indicate...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9856468
- **Project number:** 5T35HL007489-37
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
- **Principal Investigator:** Scott A Berceli
- **Activity code:** T35 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $119,556
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1980-05-01 → 2024-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9856468

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9856468, Short-Term Training for Medical Students in Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research (5T35HL007489-37). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9856468. Licensed CC0.

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