CHM Student Research Registration Process

CHM Student Research Process

The Medical Student Research Group (MSRG) of the CHM Office of Research assists CHM medical students through the registration, credentialing, and regulatory steps required prior to conducting research during their medical school experience.  

The MSRG uses an online registration system called InfoReady for all CHM medical students requesting research projects and research-related funds. InfoReady serves as a one-stop gateway for all things related to CHM student research. It is where students request research project matches, communicate with MSRG, and request research-related funds. InfoReady has a database of active research mentors that is used to match students with projects.

There are four open enrollment periods for research project/mentor matching throughout the year. CHM students who would like to be matched to a research mentor can apply during the appropriate open enrollment period. These staggered Open Enrollment periods provide equitable access to research opportunities for all interested CHM students.  

Open Enrollment Period 1: Through September 30
MCE EMR-P registration only.  
Students will receive their mentor information by October 16. 

Open Enrollment Period 2: November 1 – 15  
ECE and MCE students only.  
Students will receive their mentor information by December 6. First semester ECE students are only eligible for matches through the EMR-P process.  

Open Enrollment Period 3: January 15-31   
MCE and LCE students only.   
Students will receive their mentor information by February 18. 

Open Enrollment Period 4: April 1 – 15  
ECE and MCE students only who are looking for research projects that start in the summer. Students will receive their mentor information by May 15.  

Here’s how it works… 

Medical Students can access the registration at: MSU CHM Student Research InfoReady page or https://chm-studentresearch.infoready4.com/#. 

  1. Log in to InfoReady with your NetID and password. 
  2. In the table on that page, click "CHM Medical Student Research Registration" to access the registration form.
  3. Complete the form (note: a CV is required) 
  4. Students must have completed MSU-CHM RCR training to be eligible to be matched to a research project/mentor. See "*CHM RCR Curriculum" below.  

Questions about InfoReady? Please email: chm.research@msu.edu or call: 517-884-8038. 

Secondary Data Analysis Project Opportunities 

As part of the registration process, you will be asked whether you are interested in conducting a secondary data set analysis, either alone or as part of a group, with mentoring by the epidemiologists of CHM’s Institute for Healthcare Policy or the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department. Secondary data set analysis can cover a wide range of topics, and may require that you have a research question or a specific research area on which you would like to focus. If this is interesting to you, you will have access to self-guided training on how to conduct a study using secondary data. These studies can lead to conference posters/presentations, research briefs, and in some cases manuscripts.  

Requests for research-related funding can be made at any time throughout the academic year. 

Apply for travel, research enhancement, or poster funding through InfoReady. More info here: https://research.chm.msu.edu/students-residents/chm-msu-funding-request-procedures.

*CHM RCR Curriculum

Students interested in being matched to a research project/mentor must be up to date on their RCR training.  For first and second year medical students, this means you must have completed the MSU Graduate School RCR Program through CITI.  This training consists of four online modules in the CITI program. The modules are:

  1. Introduction to RCR
  2. Authorship
  3. Research Misconduct
  4. Plagiarism

See here for information on accessing these modules: https://orrs.msu.edu/train/programs/citi.html. Follow instructions under "Employees and Students."

*Most of you have taken this in first year as part of a Fall career development session on research.  If you have completed these modules, you will find them under "Completed Courses" on your CITI Program profile.  Save a copy of the completion certificate in case you need to provide proof of this training.