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Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTCSOM) is a public-private partnership between Carilion Clinic and Virginia Tech. VTCSOM students are encouraged to explore research project possibilities at both institutions. Access to researchers at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Carilion Clinic and Virginia Tech provides a broad range of topics and research modalities to accommodate many particular student research interests. 

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute offers research opportunities for VTC School of Medicine students in its eight Research Centers and Units. In addition, VTCRI's Primary Faculty Researchers serve as research mentors for our students.

Not all student research projects are represented here, only those that have been published.

More student research projects completed with the help of mentors from the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.

Carilion Clinic

The VTCSOM academic departments are supported by faculty from Carilion Clinic's clinical departments. Learn more about the many Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine student research opportunities through the VTCSOM/Carilion Clinic departments.

Not all student research projects are represented here, only those that have been published.

Title
Ketamine as an Adjunct to Opioids for Acute Pain in the Emergency Department: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Rural Ambulatory Access for Semi-Urgent Care and the Relationship of Distance to an Emergency Department
A meta-analysis of hospital evacuations: overcoming barriers to effective planning
Pediatric Triage Decisions in a Large-Scale Disaster
Evaluating the Inter-rater Reliability of the National Disaster Medical Service Bed Classification System

More student research projects completed with the help of mentors from the Emergency Medicine department.

Not all student research projects are represented here, only those that have been published.

Title
Spectral characteristics of urine specimens from healthy human volunteers analyzed using Raman chemometric urinalysis (Rametrix)
Respiratory System, Sleep Quality, Restless Leg Syndrome, and Depression-Anxiety Assessment in Charcot Marie Tooth Disease
Casein Kinase 1 Epsilon Regulates Glioblastoma Cell Survival
Normal saline versus NormosolTM-R in sepsis resuscitation: A retrospective cohort study
Intercalated Disk Extracellular Nanodomain Expansion in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

More student research projects completed with the help of mentors from the Internal Medicine department.

Not all student research projects are represented here, only those that have been published.

Title
New Long-Term Opioid Prescription-Filling Behavior Arising in the 15 Months After Orthopaedic Surgery
Reliability of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Prediction of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Autograft Size and Comparison of Radiologist and Orthopaedic Surgeon Predictions
Prediction of Autograft Hamstring Size for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Using MRI
Orthopedic surgeons' views on the osteoporosis care gap and potential solutions: survey results
Validity and Repeatability of Single-Sensor Loadsol Insoles during Landing

More student research projects completed with the help of mentors from the Orthopaedic Surgery department.

Not all student research projects are represented here, only those that have been published.

Not all student research projects are represented here, only those that have been published.

Title
Disinhibition-assisted long-term potentiation in the prefrontal-amygdala pathway via suppression of somatostatin-expressing interneurons
Willing to work but not to wait: Individuals with greater alcohol use disorder show increased delay discounting across commodities and less effort discounting for alcohol
Aging into perceptual control: A dynamic causal modeling for fMRI study of bistable perception
Altered prefrontal excitation/inhibition balance and prefrontal output: Markers of aging in human memory networks.
Neuroimaging after mild traumatic brain injury: Review and meta-analysis

Not all student research projects are represented here, only those that have been published.

Not all student research projects are represented here, only those that have been published.

Title
The Effects of 24-Hour Neurosurgical Call on Fine Motor Dexterity, Cognition, and Mood
The Prevalence of Beers Criteria Medication Use and Associations with Falls in Geriatric Patients at a Level 1 Trauma Center
The effect of various OR noise on fine motor skills, cognition, and mood
The Utility of Additional Imaging in Trauma Consults with Mild to Moderate Injury
Post Discharge Mortality After Geriatric Low Level Falls: A Five-Year Analysis

More student research projects completed with the help of mentors from the Surgery department.

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech (VT) has a number of outstanding programs that integrate well with medical research. These include programs in veterinary medicine, biomedical  engineering, computational biology, bioinformatics, biology, biochemistry, and nutrition, foods and exercise and psychology. It also has a highly interdisciplinary program in translational biology, medicine and health (TBMH) that has focus areas in neuroscience, metabolic and cardiovascular science, infectious disease and immunity, health implementation science, and cancer.

Additional Research Partners

Some of our faculty research mentors also come from these partner institutions: Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center, CHIP of Roanoke Valley, Children's National Medical Center. 

Outside Institutional Research Projects

In addition to research opportunities at the institutions listed above that have a direct relationship with VTCSOM, students may explore possible research projects at outside institutions, in rare situations.

This is not generally encouraged due to the requirement that the student be actively engaged in research throughout the four years of their medical curriculum, and successfully maintaining an active research project off-site is challenging, particularly during Years 3 and 4. 

Not all student research projects are represented here, only those that have been published.

Title
In vivo cartilage strain increases following medial meniscal tear and correlates with synovial fluid matrix metalloproteinase activity
Helminth infections: a new global women's health agenda
Nurse-to-patient ratios and neonatal outcomes: a brief systematic review
Development and pretesting of a decision-aid to use when counseling parents facing imminent extreme premature delivery.

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