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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.

Didactics

Methodology 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.