Research Rotations for Basic Biomedical Science Students

The information outlined below is not all-inclusive. Please familiarize yourself with all of the requirements as outlined in the Student Handbook

Promote rotation opportunities

If you have thesis funding available and wish to promote research rotation opportunities, you should create a listing for inclusion in the rotation information site. This is the main source students use to find rotations. Should you need to edit a current listing, please email Tricia Doane.

The Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences also organizes faculty research presentations each fall to help faculty promote opportunities available to students.

Rotation requirements for faculty & students

The research rotation is a graded, credited course that requires commitment from both student and faculty.

For each rotation, the student must provide the rotation faculty advisor (graduate faculty sponsoring the student’s rotation) and research group with a written report or an oral presentation of the rotation research.  The selection of written or oral presentation, and the specifications for each, are at the discretion of the rotation advisor.

At the conclusion of each rotation, rotation advisors will receive a Student Progress Assessment to complete via OASIS. Assessments should be completed within 2 weeks of the rotation's end and discussed with the student.

Research Rotations and Thesis Lab Commitment

Students matriculating through the Basic Biomedical Sciences Umbrella Pathway are required to rotate in three distinct research groups.

Students matriculating through the MD-PhD pathway are required to rotate in two distinct research groups.

Students matriculating through the Population Health Sciences, Millennium, or MS in Clinical Investigation pathways do not perform research rotations.

Students who worked in paid or unpaid research settings at UMass Chan Medical School prior to matriculation, including students in the PREP program, are not permitted to rotate in the lab of their previous mentor prior to the final rotation session.

The Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences provides financial support through the entirety of their first academic year for all students matriculating in the Basic Biomedical Sciences Umbrella and Population Health Sciences Pathways, and for the first two years for students matriculating in the MD-PhD pathway, regardless of when a student commits to a thesis research group.

Thesis Research Commitment forms are due after completion of the final rotation.