LSUHSC-Lafayette Medical Students Research and Scholarly Activity

Involvement in research and scholarly activity is an important part of undergraduate medical education. Research activities help medical students gain knowledge and experience with scientific methods to become better consumers of scientific literature.

All research proposals, presentations, and publications in which a medical student participates in while at the LSUHSC- Lafayette Regional Campus must be supervised by a faculty member.

Scholarly activities that require full supervision and approval of a faculty mentor/advisor include, but are not limited to:

• The preparation of research proposals. 
• Applications for Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), prior to submission.
• Review and approval by the IRB of any work that involves human materials/subjects.
• Review and approval by the IACUC and any other relevant safety committee as appropriate to the study. 
• The initiation of data collection for a planned research study.
• All proposals for presentations (oral and poster) at professional meetings.
• All manuscripts to be submitted for publication.