1	Mentored Medical Student Research
2	General Clinical Research Centers (GCRC) National network of 78 centers that provide optimal settings for medical investigators to conduct safe, controlled, state-of-the-art, in-patient and out-patient studies of both children and adults. GCRC resources include highly trained research and administrative personnel, a core laboratory, a bioinformatics system, and a metabolic kitchen.
3	General Clinical Research Centers (GCRC) GCRCs also provide infrastructure and resources that support several career development opportunities.
4	Mentored Medical Student Clinical Research Program Through a competitive award process, NCRR provides supplemental funding to the General Clinical Research Centers (GCRCs) that it already supports so the GCRCs can establish institutional programs that will introduce medical students to potential careers in clinical research.
5	Mentored Medical Student Clinical Research Program GCRCs are the focal point of this award program because they provide the necessary infrastructure and environment to expose medical students to both didactic training and the clinical practice of patient-oriented research.
6	Mentored Medical Student Clinical Research Program Medical student can take off up to one year to Perform mentored patient-oriented research on the GCRC Take course work related to patient-oriented research Learn laboratory skills that can be applied to patient-oriented research
7	Mentored Medical Student Clinical Research Program GCRC grant will support 2 students for the 2005-2006 academic year Stipend - $20,000/year Research support - $5,000/year
8	Mentored Medical Student Clinical Research Program Selection of students based on competitive review by the GCRC Scientific Review Committee
9	Mentored Medical Student Clinical Research Program Interested students should contact Susan Stappenbeck, GCRC Administrator 567-4629 stappenbeck@uthscsa.edu Michael Lichtenstein, GCRC Program Director 617-5311 lichtenstei@uthscsa.edu Robin Brey, GCRC Associate Program Director 567-4615 brey@uthscsa.edu