Research Thesis
Research Timeline:
- Thesis research is performed during Fall 2008, Spring 2009 and (if needed) during Summer 2009.
- The final deadline for your research thesis, in order to allow you to matriculate into medical school, will be July 31, 2009.
- Interim Reports:
- October 1, 2008. Provide Dr. Sumners (csumners@ufl.edu) with a one page update that lists your Aims and describes how your research is progressing.
- January 1, 2009. Mid-term report. All students should submit to Dr. Sumners a one to two page report on their project, which includes the hypothesis, aims, and progress made towards each aim. The point of this is to make sure that you are on track with your research.
- Abstract
- Background Literature & Hypothesis
- Methods
- Aims
- Results (Progress made towards each Aim; Include data figures in the text).
- Summary & Conclusions
- Literature Cited
Honors Research Thesis:
The format for this thesis should be as follows.
Your thesis should be between 15 and 20 pages in length (not including the Literature Cited), 11 point font (Arial or Helvetica), and 1.5 line spacing.

Location: http://medinfo.ufl.edu/students/jhmp/research-thesis.shtml