Research During Medical Residency: A How to Guide for Residents and Faculty Mentors - Paperback

by Lynne Bianchi (Author)

This book is a guide for medical residents and faculty in the fundamentals of clinical research, publication practices, and conference skills. It offers advice on how to incorporate scholarly activities into training routines, so the process becomes more manageable and less burdensome. Suggestions for pursuing other scholarly activities, outside of clinical research, are also offered.

Participation in research and other scholarly activities is a requirement for graduation from medical residency programs in the United States and many other countries. Faculty physicians who train residents are also required to produce annual scholarly work. Adding scholarship onto an already long list of requirements often feels a bit daunting to medical residents and the faculty who teach them. Fortunately, there are many forms of scholarly activity, including basic and clinical research, quality improvement projects, and educational assessments, so everyone can find interesting and feasible projects to complete.

This valuable reference provides users with a reliable source to turn to whenever they have questions on how to develop, conduct, publish, or present a research project. Written with the perspective of busy faculty and residents in mind, the content balances the need for enough detail to be instructive with the need for quick access to key points.

Author Biography

Lynne M. Bianchi, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Hamot and Gannon University, is the Director of Medical Research Operations for a community-based hospital residency program in the United States, where she supports resident research instruction and assists faculty and residents in developing and publishing research projects. The author completed her doctoral degree in biomedical sciences and has over 25 years of research, teaching, and consulting experience in pharmaceutical, medical university, and undergraduate settings. Her publications include journal articles, book chapters, and the textbook Developmental Neurobiology (CRC Press, 2018).