M4 Non-Clinical Electives

• MED MD 592: Medical Education Curriculum Projects
  The Medical Education Curriculum Projects elective provides for a MS4 student the opportunity to use a systematic instructional design process to discover, design, develop, and deploy in four weeks an instructional project on a content area of their choice. The focus of the elective is to learn and apply nontraditional curricular formats (e.g., integration of basic sciences and clinical content using technology, online modules, innovative study tools, and simulations.) Each student meets with a Faculty member as the content expert and the Elective Director a month in advance of the elective to approve the topic, and then weekly to review the deliverables and decide how the project will be implemented. GOAL: The purpose of this elective is to guide the MS4 student through the development of an instructional project for the current CAMED curriculum, presentation at a conference, posting to an educational portfolio, or for their future roles as physicians, educators, and researchers.
• MED MD 598: MD MBA Internship in Health Care Provider Administration and Administrative Consulting
  
• MED MD 599: Research Elective in Biomedical Science
  The M4 Research Elective allows fourth-year medical students to undertake 4, 8, or 12 weeks of research for credit after approval of their application by the review committee. While many students will choose to work with BU faculty mentors, students may participate in research with non-BU faculty at other institutions. Students work as part of a team to build research skills, including study development, data collection, statistical analysis, and preparing publications. At the end of the Elective, each student submits a project summary and is evaluated by their research mentor. Students may use the time to continue research projects started earlier in their training.
• MED MD 600: PhD Research
  Students completing a dual MD/PhD degree may elect to continue work on an existing research project associated with their PhD for credit in the 4th year. Students continue this work under the supervision of their PhD supervisors.