Summer Internship Program
The CORE Summer Internship Program is designed to expose students to various areas of health services and clinical research and the methods and skills associated with the fields. Students will be involved in many of the ongoing research projects being conducted at CORE. Additionally, interns will develop their own research projects that incorporate both their personal interests and current research areas at CORE.
In addition to participating directly in research, interns attend CORE’s weekly lecture series as well as any special guest lectures. CORE summer interns also have the opportunity to attend lecture series at the MMCRI Scarborough campus, exposing them to a wider range of the research activities conducted by Maine Medical Center. A special series of training sessions focusing on practical research skills is held weekly, at which members of the CORE faculty present skills relevant to their areas of research.
Student Interns- Summer 2008
Paul Col, McGill University, Biology major
Sofia Lane, McGill University, Biology major
Emma Morse, George Washington University, International Affairs major with a focus in Public Health
Rosa Spaeth, Tufts University, Biopsychology major
Research Projects
- Recruitment for a clinical trial of young female smokers
- Analysis of focus group transcripts addressing the relationship between smoking and drinking among young female smokers
- Data abstraction of preferences and values in decision aids
- Systematic review of sampling methods used in studies of refugee populations
- Compilation of materials for a Somali health education library
- Mapping of refugee origins and destinations throughout the US over time
- Programming of a web-based decision aid on osteoporosis
- Analysis of participant usage of an interactive web-based decision aid on menopause
- Development of CORE website
- Organization of statistical program outputs used in research grants at CORE
- Developing a clinical database for men diagnosed and treated with prostate cancer
- Developing an Access database for data entry of surveys collected as part of a study on the local environment for quality improvement in primary care
Intern Training Sessions
- Conducting literature searches using PubMed and Ovid
- Medicare claims data and its use in the Cardiovascular Health Atlas
- Creating maps to display and analyze data
- Using EndNote as a research tool
- Utilities assessment and techniques for eliciting patient preferences
- Statistical techniques in data analysis and SAS as an analytical tool
- Introduction to Clinical Decision Making
For more information or to apply, please contact Karen Stowe, Research Coordinator, 207-662-1493, stowek@mmc.org
Paul Col will be a junior this fall at McGill University in Montreal, where he is pursuing his Bachelor’s degree in biology. He plans to study mechanical engineering after graduation. While at CORE, Paul’s major projects included analysis of usage of a menopause website from clinical trial data, web-design and the creation of CORE’s website, and programming of a web-based decision aid on osteoporosis.
Sofia Lane will be a junior at McGill University, pursuing a major in biology with future plans to obtain a Master’s degree in Business Administration. At CORE, Sofia’s projects included implementation of the recruitment protocol for a clinical trial of young female smokers and an in-depth analysis of focus group transcripts pertaining to the joint behaviors of smoking and drinking among young women and the implications for counseling by clinicians.
Emma Morse will be a sophomore this fall at George Washington University in Washington D.C. She plans on completing a major in Global Public Health with a regional focus on Africa, and a minor in Arabic. Eventually, she hopes to pursue a degree in Epidemiology and Public Health Policy and is interested in developing health interventions abroad. At CORE, Emma worked on a refugee mapping project charting the global migration of refugees to the United States, and a systematic review of sampling methods used in studies of Somali refugee populations.
Rosa Spaeth will be a junior this fall at Tufts University, where she is majoring in Biopsychology. Her major is a mixture of biology and psychology, which suits her interest in science and the mind. In the future she hopes to pursue a degree in medicine. Her projects at CORE included a systematic review of sampling methods used in studies of Somali refugee populations, and an in-depth analysis of focus group transcripts pertaining to the joint behaviors of smoking and drinking among young women and the implications for counseling by clinicians.