Educational Goals

Our faculty members strive to achieve the following goals and objectives:

• Establish and maintain an environment conducive to inquiry and scholarship with an active research component
• Regular clinical group discussion, rounds, journal club, and conferences.-Demonstrate a commitment to scholarship by one or more of the following:-Publication of original research or review articles in peer-reviewed journals or chapters in textbooks.
• Publication or presentation of original research, case reports, clinical series.
• Participation in national committees or educational organizations.
• Encouraging, organizing and supporting resident efforts in scholarly activities.Residents will strive to achieve the following skills and tasks during the four-year training program-Recognize the role of clinical research in the advancement of medicine.
• Develop systematic and sustainable approach to reading the medical literature to keep current throughout their career with an evolving standard of practice.
• Develop an appreciation for hierarchy of clinical study design and challenges to achieving clinically meaningful evidence; statistical power, biases, confounding variables, etc.
• Advance a working knowledge of levels of evidence as guides to determine research utility and incorporation into clinical practice.
• Understand function of institutional review boards.
• Develop/conduct a research project of publication quality:
  • Develop and propose test hypothesis
  • Design study to test hypothesis
  • Seek IRB review and approval as indicated
  • Conduct the study/enrollment
  • Perform data analysis
  • Prepare abstract/manuscript/presentation
  • Serve as a discussant for other projects