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Each summer the department provides
research training to selected medical students through the
Medical Student Summer Research Program.
The program provides interested students with an opportunity
to participate in biomedical research experiences related to
oncology and to be introduced to the clinical problems
presented by cancer patients. By the end of the rotation,
the student should be able to:
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- Be familiar with the safety
procedures and practices of a research laboratory and
handling of chemical and reagents.
- Understand how to maintain accurate
records of all scientific experimentation by means of a
laboratory notebook.
- Understand basic principles and steps
of the scientific method when applied to clinical and
basic research.
- Understand and be able to
differentiate amongst different study designs used in
molecular epidemiology studies.
- Formulate a research question and
related hypotheses using the scientific method.
- Learn basic techniques commonly used
in bench science such as pipetting, weighing chemicals,
pH adjustment, preparation of solutions, use of chemical
and laminar flow hoods.
- Learn more advanced techniques used
for cell and tissue culturing by means of sterile
techniques.
- Fractionate and purify various
cellular components present in blood.
- Learn to perform the host cell
reactivation assay for measuring DNA repair capacity in
human lymphocytes.
- Learn basic principles of polymerase
chain reaction (PCR).
- Identify and use basic statistical
tests for data analysis.
- Use the SPSS software fot statistical
and epidemiological analysis.
- Analyze epidemiological data obtained
from questionnaires.
- Understand some basic principles
utilized in modern cancer research.
- Analyze scientific literature
(papers) in cancer and epidemiology.
- Sterilize waste, medium, distilled
water and some materials like
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Medical Students Summer Research
Program Past Participants:
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- Daniel Estevez, PSM, summer, 1996
- Gwenyth Smith, summer 1998
- Ian Rivera, summer 1998
- Loyda Ayala, summer 1999
- Lizbeth Alvarez, PSM, summer 1999
- Janelle Agosto Marqúez, PSM, summer
2000
- Dianette Vázquez, PSM, July, 2000
- Juan Ramos, PSM, November, 2001-2002
- Rivka Colen, PSM, October, 2001-2002
- Felipe Tirado, PSM, summer 2002
- Betty del Rio, PSM, summer 2003
- Juan C. Zuberbuhler, PSM, summer 2004
- Adam Ingraffea, PSM, August 2005
- Jose Millian, PSM summer 2007
- Giovanna Rodríguez, PSM, summer 2007,
- Jennifer Rullan, summer 2008.
- Elias Couto, PSM, summer 2009.
- Lourdes Varela, San Juan Bautista
School of Medicine, summer 2009.
- Thyra Gutierrez, San Juan Bautista
School of Medicine, summer 2009.
- Jose F. Vidal Figueroa, PSM, 2009.
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- If interested please email:
Hannia E. Delgado
Rodríguez
U-56 Program Coordinator and
MBRS Breast Cancer Project
Administrative Assistant
Ponce School of Medicine
Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Dr. Matta's Laboratory
Phone:(787)-840-2575 ext 2197
Fax: (787)-259-7085
P.O. Box 7004
Ponce, Puerto Rico 00732-7004
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