Medical Student Training

1st Year Medical Students: SLIM Summer Patient Safety Research Intensive

Systems, Leadership, Integration, and Management (SLIM) is a unique program designed to provide Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons medical students with the background, knowledge, and essential problem-solving skills to become agents of health system transformation. Jason Adelman, MD, MS, Executive Director of CPSS is Faculty Advisor. The SLIM Summer Patient Safety Research Intensive is a 10-week program where Columbia University medical students have the opportunity to develop PSR projects or contribute to ongoing projects, examine existing data sets to answer salient research questions, work with experienced researchers, statisticians, and programmers, and coauthor a manuscript for publication. SLIM Summer PSR Students have the opportunity to receive a stipend for the summer.

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I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director of Research Operations, Center for Patient Safety Science
isl2112@cumc.columbia.edu


4th Year Medical Students: Scholarly Projects in Patient Safety

Scholarly Projects in Patient Safety present Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons medical students with a unique opportunity to expand their knowledge and skill sets for conducting patient safety and health services research. Students interested in a Scholarly Project with CPSS will have the opportunity to join an existing patient safety research project, or develop a new project based on a recent adverse event, root cause analysis, or patient safety hazard observed during a clinical rotation. Students commit to 4 months of working on their project: the first 2 months (and preferably 3) are consecutive so students can be immersed in the team and project under the supervision of Jason Adelman, MD, MS, Executive Director of CPSS. The remaining months are used for data analysis and writing a Capstone and possible research paper.

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I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director of Research Operations, Center for Patient Safety Science
isl2112@cumc.columbia.edu