Spotlight on Student Research

Photo: Bill Wood

The 47th Annual Biomedical Student Research Forum last November showcased poster presentations of original scientific research by 60 medical students who participated in summer research opportunities offered by the Student Biomedical Research Program, directed by Brian Zink, M.D., assistant dean for medical student career development. Sixty students from the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts also presented, in the grand venue of the Michigan League Ballroom, the results of their research studies.

Student investigators worked with U-M faculty who volunteered to serve as research mentors. Below, second-year medical student Joshua Bess presents to Joline Brandenburg, also a second-year medical student, his findings in comparing the effectiveness of an updated version of the computer-based gross anatomy learning aid “Dissector Answers” with its previous 2000 edition. Bess conducted his research under the guidance of Thomas Gest, Ph.D., of the Department of Medical Education’s Division of Anatomical Sciences.