DOI: 10.1080/02701960.2014.942036 The Short-Term and Long-Term Impact of a Brief Aging Research Training Program for Medical Students

Summer training in aging research for medical students is a strat-egy for improving the pipeline of medical students into research careers in aging and clinical care of older adults. Johns Hopkins University has been offering medical students a summer experience of mentored research, research training, and clinical shadowing since 1994. Long-term outcomes of this program have not been described. The authors surveyed all 191 participants who had been in the program from 1994–2010 (60 % female and 27 % under-represented minorities) and received a 65.8 % (N = 125) response rate. The authors also conducted Google and other online searches to supplement study findings. Thirty-seven percent of those who have completed training are now in academic medicine, and pro-gram participants have authored or coauthored 582 manuscripts