Undergraduate Opportunities in Research Help Prepare Students Interested in Medicine

Now in its 12th year, the popular and highly successful Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) was begun to give first and second-year undergraduates a chance to work one-on-one with faculty in research partnerships. Today more than 600 faculty researchers work with approximately 900 students on individualized projects, and a special effort is being made to welcome underrepresented minority students and women students into the sciences. All the U-M’s schools and colleges participate in UROP, so students can choose from a wide range of research topics. The success of the program has led to its expansion to include students in their junior and senior years as well. UROP also manages several summer research fellowship programs designed to provide undergraduate students with an in-depth, independent research opportunity.]

For students interested in medicine, UROP has provided a valuable means of allowing students to see and be a part of medical research “up close,” and to gain a much more acute sense of their own affinity for the field and the talents they have, or don’t have, that may lead them to future success and satisfaction in the field.

More information about Michigan’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program can be found at:
http://www.umich.edu/~urop/

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Undergraduate Opportunities in Research Help Prepare Students Interested in Medicine