This R&E Foundation grant gives medical students the opportunity to gain research experience in medical imaging while they’re still in school. Recipients will define objectives, develop research skills and test hypotheses, all before even choosing a residency program. Ultimately, this experience gives students a chance to consider academic radiology as a future career option.
Application deadline: Friday, February 07, 2025.
Any area of research in the radiologic sciences is eligible for funding. Projects may include any of the following:
- Hypothesis-driven basic science
- Clinical investigation
- Drug, device or therapy development
- Comparative effectiveness
- Evidence-based radiology
- Ethics and professionalism
- Quality improvement
- Clinical practice efficiency
- Imaging informatics
You must be an RSNA member to apply for the Medical Student Research Grant. If you’re a non-dues-paying member, your scientific advisor or your co-investigator must be a dues-paying member.
You must also meet the following criteria:
All applicants
- You must be a full-time medical student at an accredited North American medical school.
- You must commit to working full-time for at least 10 weeks on your research project.
- Your research project must take place in a department of radiology, radiation oncology or nuclear medicine in a North American medical institution, but this doesn’t have to be the same institution where you’re enrolled as a student.
- You cannot have been a principal investigator on a grant or contract totaling more than US $60,000 in a single year. This includes single and combined grants and contracts from government, private and commercial sources.
- You and your principal investigators cannot be employed by any for-profit, commercial company in the radiologic sciences.
- You cannot submit more than one grant application to the RSNA R&E Foundation a year, and cannot have a concurrent RSNA grant.
- Funding from other grant sources must be approved by Foundation staff if it wasn’t described in the original research plan.
Grant recipients receive $3,000, which is matched by the sponsoring department, equaling $6,000 total. It is to be used as a stipend for the medical student. Funds are intended to secure time for the recipient and may not be used for non-personnel research expenses.