We are seeking a medical student as a research assistant to help with a project investigating how maternal nutritional knowledge influences maternal feeding practices in the first year of a child’s life.

The Job: Conduct interviews in the maternity wards of Moffitt-Long Hospital and the SFGH, collect infant anthropometric data from medical records in the well baby nurseries, enter the data into a Microsoft Access database, help with data analysis, and help write it up!

The Rewards: Authorship of any publications, experience with medical writing, systematic literature searching, Microsoft Access and basic statistics.

The Collaborators: Melvin B. Heyman, MD MPH, Janet M. Wojcicki, PhD MPH, UCSF Pediatric (GI/Nutrition), and Cam Tu-Tran, MD SFGH Pediatrics.

This is an excellent opportunity for an interested medical
student to join a project that will be submitted for publication in the
fall of 2004.

No experience is necessary.