The Research Selective is a 4-week research experience in the core clerkship year. Students develop and implement a research plan that can be used towards the development of a publication, conference presentation, a scholarship or grant proposal application. The selective provides an opportunity for students who have an area or extracurricular concentration to further develop research skills and competencies as a continuation of a prior project (e.g., previous identification of a problem, data collection, analysis), or have a solid new project idea that builds upon prior work. Areas of concentration include, but are not limited to: biomedicine, clinical medicine, global health, advocacy, urban health, population medicine, education, business and law, ethics, and quality improvement. Students are required to have a research mentor who will help develop a detailed study design and research plan. The mentor must agree to the terms of the selective before the student will be enrolled in the course.