Medical Students
PRTP supports multiple pathways for medical student engagement at Cook Children's. These experiences vary in structure, duration, and expectations, but all are intended to provide meaningful, supervised opportunities for learning, scholarly development, and engagement in pediatric research and related work.
Overview
Medical student opportunities may include structured summer or longitudinal research experiences, school-based scholarly project pathways, electives, and Special Studies experiences. Placement design depends on the student's program requirements, educational goals, project fit, and available mentorship or supervision.
Program Pathways
Pediatric Research Program (PRP)
The Cook/UNT Health Pediatric Research Program provides a mentored research experience for first-year TCOM medical students and is designed to increase research awareness, knowledge, and participation through structured learning and project engagement.
TCU School of Medicine SPT
The TCU School of Medicine Scholarly Pursuit and Thesis pathway is a longitudinal scholarly experience that helps students build critical inquiry and research skills while developing a research prospectus, completing a capstone thesis, and presenting their work.
Electives
Elective experiences can provide focused, time-limited opportunities for medical students to deepen learning in a specific area of pediatric research, scholarship, or related project work. Electives are typically designed around defined objectives, schedule expectations, and available supervision.
Special Studies
Special Studies experiences provide flexible, individualized opportunities for medical students to engage in focused scholarly or project-based work outside of a standard program structure. These experiences are shaped by the student's goals, mentor alignment, and available project needs.
Questions
Medical students, mentors, and departments with questions about available pathways, fit, or planning can contact the PRTP team for guidance at prtp@cookchildrens.org.
Interested in other training tracks? Explore the full PRTP pipeline.