The Department Family & Community Medicine (DFCM) Research Elective is a 4 week course for medical students in Year 4 to experience primary care and community medicine research. Under the mentorship and supervision of a qualified DFCM faculty member, students will develop specific plans for a research experience. Students will be expected to identify a DFCM faculty member and an associated research experience with this member prior to enrollment to this elective course. This experience may involve various aspects of a research experience continuum, such as specific aim and hypotheses generation, study design, literature reviews, implementing interventions, collecting data, data analyses, manuscript preparation and submission.