Program
Requirements
1.
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.
2.
Residents should participate in scholarly activity.
25%
of the program must be devoted to research and scholarly activities.
The
program must provide residents with a structured research experience sufficient
to result in an understanding of the basic principles of study design,
performance, analysis, and reporting.
3.
The sponsoring institution and program should allocate adequate educational
resources to facilitate resident involvement in scholarly activities.
1.
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.
2.
Residents should participate in scholarly activity.
3.
The sponsoring institution and program should allocate adequate educational
resources to facilitate resident involvement in scholarly activities.
Anesthesiology – Critical Care
Each
program must provide an opportunity for fellows to participate in research or
other scholarly activities, and fellows must participate actively in such
scholarly activities.
1.
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.
2.
Residents should participate in scholarly activity.
3.
The sponsoring institution and program should allocate adequate educational
resources to facilitate resident involvement in scholarly activities.
Each
program must provide an opportunity for fellows to participate in dermatopathologic research or other scholarly activities,
and fellows must participate actively in such scholarly activities. Fellows
should have the opportunity to become involved in the teaching of dermatopathology.
1.
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.
2.
Residents should participate in scholarly activity.
The
curriculum should include resident experience in scholarly activity prior to
completion of the program. Some examples of suitable resident scholarly
activities are the preparation of a scholarly paper such as a collective review
or case report, active participation in a research project, or formulation and
implementation of an original research project; and,
The
program must teach residents to have an understanding of basic research
methodologies, statistical analysis, and critical analysis of current medical
literature.
3.
The sponsoring institution and program should allocate adequate educational
resources to facilitate resident involvement in scholarly activities.
1. 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.
2. Residents should participate in scholarly
activity.
Each
program must provide supervised experiences for all residents in scholarly
activities such as research, presentations at national, regional, state, or
local professional meetings, or presentation and/or publication of review
articles and case presentations. Formal instruction and practical experience
must assure that each resident develops and demonstrates skills in locating
sources of scientific data pertinent to the care of patients, analyzing the
appropriateness of research design and statistical methods, obtaining
information about diagnostic and therapeutic effectiveness, and applying
evidence from pertinent clinical studies to patient care.
The
program must provide a supervised, ongoing forum in which residents explore and
analyze emerging scientific evidence pertinent to the practice of family
medicine.
Additionally,
all residents must actively participate in scientific inquiry, either through
direct participation in research, or undertaking scholarly projects that make
use of the scientific methods noted above.
Residents
must also have guided experiences in the application of emerging clinical
knowledge applicable to their own patient panels. The training environment must
be in compliance with accepted evidence-based practices.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should
allocate adequate educational resources to facilitate resident involvement in
scholarly activities.
1. 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.
2. Residents should participate in scholarly activity.
a) The program must
provide an opportunity for residents to participate in research or other
scholarly activities, such as: original research, comprehensive case reports,
or review of assigned clinical and research topics.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should allocate adequate
educational resources to facilitate resident involvement in scholarly
activities.
Internal
Medicine Sub-Specialties
1. The curriculum must advance fellows’ knowledge of the basic
principles of research, including how such research is conducted, evaluated,
explained to patients, and applied to patient care.
2. Fellows should participate in scholarly activity.
a)
Participation in an active research program is an essential component for
fellows enrolled in subspecialty fellowship training programs of 24 months or
greater duration.
(1)
The program must ensure a meaningful, supervised research experience with
appropriate protected time for each fellow—either in blocks or concurrent
with clinical rotations—while maintaining the essential clinical
experience.
(2)
Fellows must be advised and supervised by qualified faculty members in the
conduct of research.
(3)
Fellows must learn the standards of ethical conduct of research, design and
interpretation of research studies, responsible use of informed consent,
research methodology, and interpretation of data.
(4)
The majority of fellows must demonstrate evidence of recent research
productivity through:
(a)
publication (manuscripts or abstracts) in peer
reviewed journals, or
(b)
abstracts presented at national specialty meetings
(N.B.:
Training programs in one-year critical care medicine and internal
medicine-geriatric medicine are exempt from this requirement relative to
research productivity by fellows.)
3. The sponsoring institution and program should allocate adequate educational
resources to facilitate fellow involvement in scholarly activities.
1. 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.
2. Residents should
participate in scholarly activity.
a)
Graduate medical education must take place in an environment of inquiry and
scholarship in which residents participate in the development of new knowledge,
learn to evaluate research findings, and develop habits of inquiry as a
continuing professional responsibility.
3. The sponsoring
institution and program should allocate adequate educational resources to
facilitate resident involvement in scholarly activities.
1. 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.
2. Residents should
participate in scholarly activity.
3. The sponsoring
institution and program should allocate adequate educational resources to
facilitate resident involvement in scholarly activities.
1. The curriculum must advance fellows’
knowledge of the basic principles of research, including how research is
conducted, evaluated, explained to patients, and applied to patient care.
2. Fellows should participate in scholarly activity.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should
allocate adequate educational resources to facilitate fellow involvement in
scholarly activities.
1. 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.
2. Residents should participate in scholarly
activity.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should
allocate adequate educational resources to facilitate resident involvement in
scholarly activities.
1. 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.
2. Residents should participate in scholarly
activity.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should
allocate adequate educational resources to facilitate resident involvement in
scholarly activities.
1. 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.
2. Residents should participate in scholarly
activity.
Resident
education must include instruction in experimental design, hypothesis testing,
and other current research methods, as well as participation in clinical or
basic research so that residents may develop their abilities to critically evaluate medical
literature, research, and other scholarly activity.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should allocate adequate
educational resources to facilitate resident involvement in scholarly
activities.
Resources for
scholarly activity by residents must include laboratory space and equipment,
computer and data analysis services, statistical consultation services,
research conferences, faculty expertise and supervision, support personnel,
time, and funding.
1. 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.
2. Residents should participate in scholarly
activity.
The
educational program should provide a structured research experience for the
residents, sufficient to result in an understanding of the basic principles of
study design, performance, analysis, and reporting. The research experience may
be clinical or basic in nature, and should reflect careful advice by and
planning with the faculty. Facilities and protected time for research by the
residents should also be provided, with guidance and supervision by qualified
faculty.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should
allocate adequate educational resources to facilitate resident involvement in
scholarly activities.
1. 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.
2. Residents should
participate in scholarly activity.
a)
Throughout their time in the program, residents should be exposed to and
encouraged to participate in clinical or laboratory research, research
seminars, work-in-progress sessions, and organized reviews of intradepartmental
research.
b)
The program should provide an environment that promotes research and scholarly
activity by the residents. Resident participation in research may involve
methods development, clinical or basic research, or literature surveys.
3. The sponsoring
institution and program should allocate adequate educational resources to
facilitate resident involvement in scholarly activities.
Each program must provide an opportunity for fellows to participate in
research or other scholarly activities, and fellows must participate actively
in such scholarly activities.
Each program must provide an opportunity for fellows to participate in
research or other scholarly activities, and fellows must participate actively
in such scholarly activities.
Each program must provide an opportunity for fellows to participate in
research or other scholarly activities, and fellows must participate actively
in such scholarly activities.
Each program must provide an opportunity for fellows to participate in
research or other scholarly activities, and fellows must participate actively
in such scholarly activities.
1. 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.
2. Residents should participate in scholarly
activity.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should
allocate adequate educational resources to facilitate resident involvement in
scholarly activities.
1. The curriculum must advance fellows’
knowledge of the basic principles of research, including how research is
conducted, evaluated, explained to patients, and applied to patient care.
2. Fellows should participate in scholarly activity.
Each
fellow must design and conduct a scholarly project in his or her subspecialty
area with the guidance of the fellowship director and a designated mentor. The
program must provide a scholarship oversight committee for each fellow to
evaluate the fellow’s progress as related to scholarly activity. The
scholarly experience must begin in the first year and continue for the entire
period of training. Time must be adequate to allow for the development of
requisite skills, project completion, and presentation of results to a local
scholarship oversight committee established for this review. Where applicable,
the process of establishing fellow scholarship oversight committees should be a
collaborative effort involving other pediatric subspecialty programs in the
institution.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should allocate adequate
educational resources to facilitate fellow involvement in scholarly activities.
Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation
1. 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.
2. Residents should
participate in scholarly activity.
a)
The curiosity and creativity of all residents must be stimulated. They must be
involved in the critical appraisal of current literature.
b)
Residents should have the opportunity to participate in structured, supervised
research training. Residents should be encouraged to produce a peer reviewed
publication or engage in an in-depth scholarly activity during the residency
program. A program director may elect to offer a special research or academic
track for selected residents. This may take the form of an elective or research
rotation, not to exceed six months, within the 36 months of physical medicine
and rehabilitation residency training.
3. The sponsoring
institution and program should allocate adequate educational resources to
facilitate resident involvement in scholarly activities.
Each program must provide an opportunity for
residents to participate in research or other scholarly activities, and
residents must participate actively in such scholarly activities.
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.
2. Residents should participate in scholarly
activity.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should
allocate adequate educational resources to facilitate resident involvement in
scholarly activities.
1. 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.
2. Residents should
participate in scholarly activity.
3. The sponsoring
institution and program should allocate adequate educational resources to
facilitate resident involvement in scholarly activities.
Psychiatry
1. 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.
2. Residents should
participate in scholarly activity.
a) Residents will
have instruction in research methods in the clinical, biological, and
behavioral sciences related to psychiatry, including techniques to appraise the
professional and scientific literature and to apply evidence based findings to
patient care.
3. The sponsoring
institution and program should allocate adequate educational resources to
facilitate resident involvement in scholarly activities.
Each program must provide an opportunity for
residents to participate in research or other scholarly activities, and
residents must participate actively in such scholarly activities.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
1. 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.
2. Residents should participate in scholarly activity.
Graduate
medical education must take place in an environment of inquiry and scholarship
in which residents learn to evaluate research findings, develop habits of
inquiry as a practice of life-long learning, and whenever interested,
participate in the development of new knowledge. The following components of a
scholarly environment must be provided.
All
residents should be educated in research literacy. Research literacy is the
ability to critically appraise and understand the relevant research literature
and to apply research findings appropriately to clinical practice. The concepts
and process of Evidence Based Clinical Practice include skill development in
question formulation, information searching, critical appraisal, and medical
decision-making, thus providing the structure for teaching research literacy to
psychiatry residents. The program must promote an atmosphere of scholarly
inquiry, including access to ongoing research activity in psychiatry. Residents
must be taught the design and interpretation of data.
The
program must provide residents with research opportunities and the opportunity
for development of research skills for residents interested in conducting
research in psychiatry or related fields. The program must provide interested
residents access to and the opportunity to participate actively in ongoing
research under a mentor. When unavailable in the local program, efforts to
establish distant mentoring programs are encouraged.
Teaching
staff must participate in clinical discussions, rounds, and conferences in a
manner that promotes a spirit of inquiry and scholarship. Scholarship implies
an in-depth understanding of basic mechanisms of normal and abnormal states,
and the application of evidenced based practice.
The
program must ensure the participation of residents and faculty in journal
clubs, research conferences, didactics, and/or other activities that address critical
appraisal of the literature and understanding of the research process.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should allocate adequate
educational resources to facilitate resident involvement in scholarly
activities.
Each program must provide an opportunity for residents to participate in
research or other scholarly activities, and residents must participate actively
in such scholarly activities.
Each program must provide an opportunity for
residents to participate in research or other scholarly activities, and
residents must participate actively in such scholarly activities.
1. 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.
2. Residents should participate in scholarly
activity.
All
residents should have training in critical thinking skills and outcomes
research. During their training, all residents should be encouraged to engage
in an investigative project under faculty supervision. This may take the form
of laboratory research, or clinical research, or the retrospective analysis of
data from patients, and results of such projects shall be suitable for
publication at institutional, local, regional, or national scientific meetings.
3. The sponsoring institution and program should
allocate adequate educational resources to facilitate resident involvement in
scholarly activities.
Vascular
and Interventional Radiology
Each program must provide an opportunity for fellows to participate in
research or other scholarly activities, and fellows must participate actively
in such scholarly activities.
1. 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.