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Monday, June 6, 2016

Research opportunity in urology clinic, looking for premed undergrads

Hello, 
 
I am a 2nd year urology resident at UF.  I actually went to UF for undergrad and med school so I am a long time gator.  I am involved in a research project looking at patient perceptions regarding the usage of chaperones during intimate urologic exams and procedures in the urology clinic.  We have an IRB already approved and the study involves getting informed consent to fill out a 1 page patient survey asking them their opinions about chaperones.  This survey can be administered in the waiting room to any of the urology patients. 
 We are in the phase of actually administering the survey now and would like to recruit some undergraduates, maybe about 2 to 6 of them to administer the survey during business hours 8 AM to about 4 PM in the  urology clinic in med plaza.  They could work basically any day Monday through Friday and only restriction is that they would need to be available during clinic hours.  It would be ideal if someone had a block of time for about 2 to 4 hours on a given day to administer the survey however we can be flexible, e.g. they could come by for 2 hours twice a week.  The more they can be available the better because it would help accrue most surveys. 
Benefits to the undergraduate would be involvement in a research project in urology and we plan to submit our findings to the southeastern section American urology association annual meeting as a poster and manuscript as well and they would be listed.  They can also become acquainted with some of the current urology residents and attending doctors so this may be of benefit if someone may think they are interested specifically in urology.  Even if they are not urology is a great field and the exposure and research would look good on a resume for medical school applications. 
 If you are interested and able to devote at least 5 hours a week to this project then please email me.  Those that can devote the most time would be ideal but we will likely need several students.  Training to administer the survey would probably take about 30 minutes as I can go over the IRB consent and questionnaire with you.  All they would have to do on their own time would be to complete online HIPPAA for research training and sign up for myIRB, which would probably take about 30 minutes. 
 If interested please email me back at Han0062@ufl.edu. 
 

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