2026 Summer Undergraduate Mentored Research Program
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Job Location:
Philadelphia, PA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
5 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Summer Undergraduate Mentored Research Program (SUMR) is a full-time paid summer internship presented by the Wharton Schools Health Care Management Department and Penn LDI at the University of Pennsylvania that introduces promising undergraduates to health services research. The 12-week program aims to promote students to conduct research in graduate programs in the fields of health economics health care management health policy population health and clinical epidemiology.
SUMR 2025 will start May 26 2026 and end on August 14 2026.
What do SUMR scholars do
- Work on paid research projects with Penn faculty mentors
- Hear about graduate school opportunities
- Participate in 6-month online GRE prep program
- Attend week-long orientation and 20 seminars with Penn faculty
- Attend academic conferences
- Participate in a 8-week critical writing program
- Present research at End of SUMR Symposium
Who is eligible
- Program participants should have an interest in health care and strong quantitative skills.
- Prospective participants do not have to make a commitment in advance to attend graduate school to be accepted into the program but an academic or research career should be something they are considering. A committee of Penn faculty selects each years SUMR scholars from the highly competitive applicant pool.
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