Research Requirements to graduate
Scholarly Activity Requirement
During your three years in the residency program, it is expected that you will complete a minimum of at least one resident project. This may involve an educational, EMS or research project, which will be of a quality that it could be published or presented at a major state or regional conference. You should utilize your faculty advisor, and other faculty members to select or develop an appropriate research project/presentation and for guidance in its development and execution as early in your residency as possible. A Resident Research Project form needs to be completed and submitted to Dr. Walsh before starting any resident project. Contact: Faculty Advisor or Dr. Walsh, 62154
Resident Research Requirements
Residency review committee requirements for resident research may be met in any of the three following ways in this program.
1. Assisting in a faculty member’s original research or
2. Undertaking his/her own original research.
And
3. Obtaining a passing score (100 points) in the departments continuous assessment program of resident research.
When assisting faculty with research the resident may be given some responsibility for a nested research project (typically a smaller project within a project) or the resident may be expected perform some specific tasks required for a faculty research project. It is anticipated that most residents will pursue this route to meet their research requirements. Authorship, if granted, will be determined by the faculty.
Interested residents may pursue their own research interests under faculty supervision. Because of limited resources such projects will be screened and/or refined to ensure that they are worthwhile and feasible. This will be done by the supervising faculty. Following completion the resident would generally be first author on any resultant paper. Where multiple residents are involved the final order shall be determined by supervising faculty.
Case reports do not meet the requirements for research activity in this program. Although residents and faculty may report suitable cases. This is not to say the are of no value, but that they are not adequate to pass the research requirement.
Continuous assessment program of resident research.
There will be 6 to 12 one-hour slots set aside from normal teaching time to facilitate this process. Each resident will give a power point presentation describing their research proposal. This will last 10 minutes with an additional 5 minutes for questions. The timeline for this will be enforced. Long-winded literature reviews to prove you did the background research impress nobody.
The purpose of research conference is to
1. Give you practice for public presentation
2. Get feed back from your colleagues about how to improve study design and implantation.
3. Provides a set of deadlines which helps force you to complete your project on time so that your graduation from residency is not delayed.
4. Provides a method of continuous assessment.
At subsequent meetings (until project completion) they will be asked for a 10 minute progress report.
The points schema which shows how you are scored is in the resident handbook. The presentations at research conference should be structured as outlined below. Try to have Dr. Walsh or Dr. Brown review your presentatin a week before it is due.
First Presentation
Completed Background Research
Bring your binder and copies of the forms for each paper for the audience.
The protocol design form completed with copies for the audience.
Printout of your power calculations with copies for the audience.
Data collection forms with copies for the audience
Power point presentation
Slides (10 minutes and 5 minutes discussion)
1. Title
2. Clinical question
3. Study Question broadly defined
4. Study question narrowly defined
5. Define study population
6. Define outcome criteria
7. Other study definitions
8. Methodology
9. Power calculations
10. Data analysis proposed
11. Data collection forms
Take notes and incorporate these in your next presentation. Problems in any of these areas will need to be corrected before proceeding.
Second Presentation
Completed study protocol with changes made since last presentation highlighted and copies of same for the audience.
Slides ( Five 5 to 10 minutes and 5 to 10 minutes discussion for a total of 15 minutes)
1. Title
2. List of weaknesses identified from last presentation and how addressed
3. Changes required by the IRB
4. Any definition or protocol changes
5. Progress in each of the categories listed in the scoring sheet above
Third and fourth Presentations
Slides (Five 5 to 10 minutes and 5 to 10 minutes discussion for a total of 15 minutes)
1. Title
2. Restate Hypothesis
3. Numbers enrolled to date
4. Problems with enrollment
5. Protocol deviations (if none say so)
6. Anticipated completion date
Fifth Presentation
Slides (Five 5 to 10 minutes and 5 to 10 minutes discussion for a total of 15 minutes)
1. Title
2. Restate Hypothesis
3. Results
4. Data Analysis
5. Statistical Analysis
6. Conclusions
Final Presentation
Slides
A single power point slide of your poster if you are due to make a poster presentation, or if doing a platform presentation, a formal ten-minute powerpoint presentation using the Introduction/Methods/Results/Limitations format.
If doing a mock-up of your poster you will need to present in only three minutes.Resources
The following resources are available to you.
DidacticsMethodology lectures
Statistics lectures
Journal Club
Reading
Dr. Purcell’s Statistics course. ( On your disc or can be had as a three-ring binder)
Methodology Articles and chapters from texts with which you will be provided.
Software
A study protocol development form. Before approaching a faculty member to mentor you an a project you should first complete or at least attempt to complete this.
Sample size calculators. These run in most web browsers.
Simple statistical analysis software. Again this will run in most browsers.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) forms. These change frequently. Consequently you should contact the IRB to check for the most up to date version. However they are included so that you know what to expect.
Different faculty may also use their preferred statistical software for study design and analysis.
Lectures in powerpoint format outlining the approach to research.
Background Research forms.
Ethics and Privacy Regulations
You are required to take an approved ethics course. An example is available (the free version is fine) at http://cme.nci.nih.gov/
We recommend this online course from the national institutes of health. This one is free and you get to print out a certificate of completion. When you have done this you MUST email a copy to Mary Cortez (CortezM@kernmedctr.com) . She will forward these to Joan Buddecke at the IRB.For full details see you resident hand book.