Table 5. Narrative student comments (common theme selection).

MS1: first-year medical student

Narrative comments

“I think it would be neat to have a website or even blog dedicated for [medical] students to submit small entries into what type of research they completed during their time [in medical school], how they got involved, and what they felt they got out of it. This would be a nice resource for incoming MS1's to learn more about what has been done in the past and what opportunities or research interests they might not have considered.”

“It would be helpful to have dedicated research faculty who can direct you to projects in your specialty.”

“More knowledge on the general progression of research (i.e., how to get funding, how to draft certain types of research manuscripts, how to get your abstract accepted for a conference, and how to get your paper published).”

“I think we should have a personalized research meeting with someone that can point us in the right direction and help us take actionable steps.”

“Having a more centralized [research] database that physicians in the community actually use and are aware of would be super helpful.”

“More specialty-specific research opportunities.”