Summer internships

Summer Medical Internship Program overview

The SIR Foundation Summer Medical Internship Program introduces medical students to interventional radiology research and medical device development. The goal of this program is to foster an interest in research by funding a summer research project conducted by a medical student. Students applying for the program must show strong potential for a career in IR with proven academic success.

This program requires corporate or IR academic host sites to volunteer to mentor the selected interns over an 8-week period. Host sites should be able to provide mentors with a curriculum composing of the following elements:

Concept development—a distillation of a clinical question into elemental components
Experimental design and statistics, including proof of concept, steps in validation of new technique
Techniques in the basic science lab
Data collection, statistics and meaningful analysis of data
Constructing a well-written scientific paper

How to apply to become a host site

If you are a corporate or IR academic host site interested in participating in the 2025 program, please review the guidelines below.

Corporate host site guidelines
IR host site guidelines

For any additional questions regarding the application, please email the Associate of Clinical Research and Grants.

To apply, please submit an application through the link below. Applications for 2025 SMIP Host Sites open June 1 and close at 5 p.m. ET on Oct. 3, 2024.

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