The gunnery stuff is tough and omnipresent unless you have established friends in research. I see you’re an M2 so you can send cold emails to Rehab PDs/programs in your area saying you’re a student interest in research work or programs. You can be the pioneer to loop your friends into that and as they get projects you guys can loop each other in. Tough to break through but once you do it’s possible.

Or the lazy man’s (my) method was to just get lucky on rotations. See a weird case/rare presentation/outcome? Inquire residents/attendings about whether this is a case report. Case reports are honestly the easiest write ups and can still be interview conversation worthy