The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Associates Program (PEMRAP) offers undergraduate pre-medical students the opportunity to participate in clinical, patient-oriented research projects in a hospital setting.  Students have the opportunity to work in the St. Louis Children's Hospital Emergency Department, a nationally recognized pediatric emergency medicine and trauma care facility.  A number of research projects are currently underway in various areas of pediatric emergency medicine.  Topic areas include head injury, procedural pain and sedation, neonatal sepsis and fracture healing.   Credit/No Credit

Research Associates will be expected to work two 4-hour shifts per week in the St. Louis Children's Hospital Emergency Department and to attend a weekly 2-hour lecture on Tuesdays in the 10A conference room of the Medical Center's Northwest Tower from 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm at St. Louis Children's Hospital.  Weekly meeting will include lectures given by Emergency Department faculty members. 

This program offers students the unique opportunity to be a vital part of the ED research team.  In addition, the RA's experience in the ED may help him/her determine if medicine is truly the career path he/she wishes to choose.