The 29^th annual Medical Guild-sponsored graduate student research competition is scheduled for the morning of Tuesday, April 27^th, from 8:30-11:00 a.m. in the Auditorium of the Health Professions, Nursing & Pharmacy (HPNP) Building, as part of our annual "College of Medicine Research Day" sponsored by the COM Faculty Council and Office of the Dean.  Each IDP advanced concentration may nominate ONE graduate student for participation in this competition, which will consist of 15-minute oral research presentations and 5-minute Q&A sessions for each participant.  Advanced students admitted by departments prior to the IDP are also eligible.  Presentations will be evaluated by a panel of faculty judges, who will rank them in terms of excellence.  All six students will be recognized and presented an award certificate at the Research Day luncheon, and will receive a cash award from the UF Medical Guild based on the judges' final rankings:  $1,000 for 1^st place, $600 for 2^nd place, $400 for 3^rd place, $300 for 4^th place, and $200 each for 5^th & 6^th place.  In addition, these students will be presented with a certificate at the College of Medicine Honors Convocation, and their names will be inscribed on a plaque on permanent display in the Office of Graduate Education.  

Final Results:              Congratulations to all of our Research Award Winners!

(left to right) Mary Ann Checkley, Rahul Kanadia, Alaric Falcon, Eric Sandberg, Edgar Rodriquez, Karen Vieira

Past winners:
    2003    Stormy Chamberlain, Jared Wilsey, Erin Keen Rhinehart, Chris Williams, Steve Guthrie, Jin He
    2002    Angela Starkes, Brian Raisler, Kelly Leach, Mike Thomson, Jason Coleman, Yi Tang
    2001    Matthew Simmons, Don Latner, Sung-Hae Lee Kang, Keith Bahjat
    2000    Vincent Leveque, Harveen Dhillon, Susan Blaydes, Lingyun Li
    1999    Yuan Clare Zhang, Darwin Ang, Kristin B. Moon, Yujiang Shi
    1998    Jeff Martens, Jill Miller, Kelly McDonald, Pei Wu
    1997    Annette Oberdorf, Stephen T. Nowicki, Mary Catherine Bowman, Miduturu Srinivas
    1996    Scott Wilson, Tiffany Alley, Steve Munger, Chris Robinson

Advanced concentration directors or their designates will be coordinating the selection of the nominee from each advanced concentration in time for submission of the nominating packets.  Please contact your advanced concentration director or graduate secretary for more information.

Nomination packets from each advanced concentration must be received by Susan Gardner in the Office of Graduate Education (R1-102) no later than Friday, April 2, 2004.  Nomination packets should include:

1. Name of graduate student nominee

2. Name of the student’s faculty mentor

3. The exact title of the presentation

4. An abstract that summarizes the student’s research.  This should be no more than one page in length (single-spaced) and should include the objectives, methods, results and conclusions.

5. A research article that provides a more detailed report of the student’s research.  This should include the objectives, background, significance, results, and conclusions, and should not exceed 1,500 words double-spaced.  Literature citations and experimental methods should be included as an appendix, and do not count toward the word limitation.  NOTE:  Reprints of published manuscripts that the student has authored should not be submitted in lieu of this description.

Please note that items 1-4 will be used by the Faculty Council to produce the Research Day printed program, and are due on Friday, April 2^nd.  Items 4 & 5, which should be submitted as Microsoft Word documents either on a diskette or as an e-mail attachment sent to sgard@dean.med.ufl.edu, will be provided to the judges.  Item 5 may be turned the following week, but no later than Friday, April 9^th.

The oral presentations are tentatively scheduled to take place in the Health Professions, Nursing & Pharmacy Building Auditorium (1st floor) on the morning of Tuesday, April 27^th, from 8:30-11:00 a.m.  These will be followed by medical student research talks, and then a reception/luncheon at noon in the HPNP reception area (ground floor), in honor of all participating students and the faculty judges.

I’m sure you will all agree that this is a very generous continuing contribution from the Medical Guild, which helps to support and encourage excellence in graduate student research.  Everyone is encouraged to attend the COM Research Day activities, which will also include a faculty poster session, seminars by last year's COM Faculty Basic Science and Clinical Science award winners, and a keynote speaker.  A good turnout, especially during the student portion of the program, will demonstrate our grateful appreciation of this support to our graduate program.  I look forward to seeing you on COM Research Day!

Wayne T. McCormack, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Graduate Education

Last Year's 2003 Participants:

(left to right)  Erin Keen Rhinehart,  Chris Williams, Jin He, Stormy Chamberlain,  Jared T. Wilsey, Steve Guthrie

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