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A Content Analysis Of The Scholarly Activity Requirements In Acgme-Accredited Residency And Fellowship Programs, Kari Nelson, Jacob Pfeifer, Emily Zurbuchen, Chandrakanth Are

Graduate Medical Education Research Journal

Background: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) common and specialty program requirements stipulate that residents/fellows participate in scholarly activities. The ACGME provides a reporting template tool for scholarly activity to be utilized by all specialties for evaluation annually. In this study, we aimed to: 1) Conduct a content analysis of the specialty scholarly activity requirements for all ACGME-accredited training programs to identify commonalities and variations, and 2) Assess alignment between the specialty scholarly activity requirements and the reporting template tool provided by the ACGME.

Methods: The scholarly activity requirements for all ACGME-accredited residency and fellowship specialties …

Establishing An Institution-Wide Graduate Medical Education Research Collaborative To Promote Scholarly Activities Among House Officers, Kaeli K. Samson, Lynette M. Smith, Valerie Shostrom, Jeffrey P. Gold, Chandrakanth Are

Graduate Medical Education Research Journal

Background: House officers’ ability to participate in research and quality improvement projects can be hindered by barriers, including lack of time, mentoring, and resources.

Objective: Create a collaborative for house officers that provides readily accessible resources in study design as well as data collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation.

Methods: In 2017, we established a collaborative comprised of biostatisticians and an Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Research, providing a trove of experience in research and quality improvement. We worked closely with the Institutional Review Board and Electronic Health Records Core to simplify the process for house officers to utilize these research …