Residency Scholarly Activity Guidelines

Background

ACGME rules require the following for General surgery resident’s requirements.

The curriculum must advance residents knowledge of the basic principles of research including how research is conducted, evaluated, explained to patients, and applied to patient care.
Residents should participate in scholarly activity. The sponsoring institution and program should allocate adequate educational resources to facilitate resident involvement in scholarly activities.

While ACGME mandates scholarly activity, it does not specify what activities qualify as scholarly. This allows residency programs to tailor the scholarly project to the interests of each resident. In parallel with our department’s mission we want to provide our residents with a valuable scholarly project experience. The following guide lines has been created by the research committee and has been edited by the chair and the residency director.

The four components of scholarship includes: Discovery Integration, application, and teaching.

Residents are encouraged to complete scholarly activity and individual scholarly activity is tracked closely by the residency program. Scholarly activity completed by residents include but is not limited to case reports, poster presentations, quality improvement projects, and clinical research projects.

Intern year

• Identify area of research and identify potential faculty member with similar area of interest
• Completion of Quality Improvement project and curriculum

Second year

• Brainstorm project ideas and narrow the project focus. Set a dead line for each step of your project via retrograde planning. Submit project idea form.
• Present scholarly activity protocol at the research meeting for approval
• Work out project kinks and initiate project

Third year

• Finish project
• Document results
• Present scholarly work