Research Intern

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Position Highlights:

• Position: Undergrad Summer Research Intern

• Location: Evanston, IL (onsite)

• Full Time/Part Time: Per Diem

• Program Dates: Program Dates:  July–August 2026

Position Summary: The Endeavor Health Department of HPB Surgery Summer Undergraduate Research Program offers current undergraduates, going into their 2nd and 3rd years, the opportunity to gain real-world, medical research experience.  Endeavor Health Physicians and Scientists serve as program mentors. Depending on the mentor, students will be introduced to various types of research such as human subjects research, clinical trials research, or wet-lab research. The research programs offer research experience in a variety of different topics including Surgery, Cancer, Outcomes Research and more

What you will do: Summer Research Fellows may participate in a variety of research activities which may include:

• Participate in research projects as assigned

• Attend and participate in research team meetings

• Perform searches and reviews of research literature

• Perform surgical video editing on Adobe Premiere Pro

• Maintain a surgical video and resident curriculum database on Microsoft Excel

• Retrieve data from EMR and cleaning data sets for analysis

• Collect and analyze data from Surgical Simulation lab

• Helping in the virtual reality simulation, bio-tissue drills set-up and recording of the recording of drills

• Participate in writing research reports such as abstracts or manuscripts

• Analysis of data depending on the mentor’s research program

What you will need:

• Must be an undergraduate student

• Preference for students entering their 2nd and 3rd year of study

• Prior research experience desirable but not required.