Here are the steps to get plugged into a project. Students outside of Spectrum can work remotely (per Inta Mednis, Research Admin at Spectrum Health). You can go through the research onboarding process before being assigned a study.
Purpose for discord: Review announcements, stay connected with the MSU ortho community, and have a single point of contact for medical students
Read our MSU Ortho Research Team Mission Statement:
Please fill out the All Available Med Students - Main Database if you are available to help out with a project, please only do this if you are willing to commit to 1-2 years of research effort. Also, please keep your submitted information up to date for resident and attending reference:
Check the “Ongoing Research Projects” list to see what is available, in your email to @Alex Case, you can bring up your preferences:
Once you are apart of a research project, you are responsible for emailing the whole project team with updates on the first Monday of the month, following this template for each project you are involved in, on your emails please CC @Alex Case and the Ortho Resident and Med Student Research Leads: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected].
Project Name: C1 Burst and Type 2 Dens Requiring Intubation (https://www.notion.so/msuortho/Squires-C1-Burst-and-Displaced-Type-2-Dens-Requiring-Intubation-Open-b237727513e44b29ae65055ddf95fe5d?pvs=4) Progress Made: Added the study to Notion and touching base with Dr. Squires about the case, and getting permission to move forward with the write up. Challenges: Ensuring that no other case reports have covered this specific injury, as we want our publication to be unique Next Steps: Finding a team leader, working with neurosurgery resident on lit review, finding a great template study. Specific Asks/Needs: Need the team to keep an eye out for good papers, need the resident team members to get patient permission to publish their case, and need the whole team to be patient with response times in the next three weeks because I will be swamped call.
If you are waiting for an assigned role or have been assigned a role complete the following: SHORE credentialing, IRB onboarding and EMR credentialing, COI and CITI training.
Email Dr. Trottier ([email protected]) first and complete his list of onboarding activities listed below:
He will then have you email the CoreWell Research Onboarding Admin, Jessica Verbos ([email protected]) CC the research project lead in the emails if you’re assigned to a study.
For OAM IRB onboarding: Mark Trottier first contact, then email OAM research: [email protected] (CC the project lead in the emails)
For Statistics help on a current project, contact Spectrum: [email protected] or MSU: [email protected]
For help with data procurement through Spectrum medical record you can contact Honest Broker through this link, you can also contact honest brokers directly at [email protected]
For help with a lit review please contact Iris at MSU medical library: [email protected]
List of frequently used documents for Ortho Researchers:
Become a med student member of the main ortho society in the United States (AAOS):
Medical Student Membership | American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons