Research

Research in Residency

Stanford 2009-10

The Research in Residency Program begins this year as a requirement and will encourage residents to specifically reflect upon their core career interests.   These include 

•A condition (e.g. asthma, developmental delay)

•A population (e.g. adolescents, underserved population)

•A role (e.g. community advocate, public policy work, basic science, health services or clinical researcher)

For the current PGY2’s and 3’s, this project is being strongly encouraged but not required.  The current StAT program has long made similar requirements part and parcel of the Advocacy program at Stanford.  This expands and builds on that program. We expect the residents will pose a health-related question and develop it into a project (PGY-1); obtain IRB approval, if needed, and gather all data (PGY-2); and analyze that data and present their findings to the department (PGY-3) as a poster or platform presentation.  The department is planning to begin to host a research day in the winter (likely Feb) of 2010 where these posters etc will be discussed. A research award is planned as well. Submission to a national platform is encouraged but not required.

 

Faculty Roles:  The class advisor (for the current PGY-1’s: Laura Bachrach) will mentor and ‘match make’ throughout the first year of residency until a “Principal Investigator” is identified. The Principal Investigator(s) will take primary responsibility for helping to develop the resident’s project and assure its feasibility and integrity and must give approval before any oral or written presentations are given inside and outside the University.  The time commitment for this guidance will certainly vary quite a bit, depending on the residents and the project.

Many Stanford faculty want to share their ongoing research interests with you and can offer you an exciting opportunity to explore an area of pediatrics under their expert guidance. Take a look at a sample of what is possible!    Faculty Research Roster

 

Some examples of successful projects include:

By Setting…

COMMUNITY

Empowerment Approach to Childhood Asthma

Perceptions of Burn Safety

 

CLINICAL

The Resident Pager - Introduction of a Telephone Triage Training Program

The Primary Care Research Agenda – The Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) Perspective

Optimizing Resident Learning in the NICU

Is there a way to improve the management of ALTE?

Fractional Excretion of Urea in a Pediatric Population

Mechanism of Scald Injuries

Adolescent PCOS as Precursor of Adult PCOS and Insulin Resistance

 

LAB

MRSA & Cook County Jail: Analysis of Isolates that may be from CA Infections

Effects of Repeated GnRH Agonist in Normal Men

 

 

By Subject Area…

 

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

Is there a way to improve the management of ALTE?

The Resident Pager - Introduction of a Telephone Triage Training Program

 

PATIENT EDUCATION/EMPOWERMENT

Empowerment Approach to Childhood Asthma

 

MEDICAL EDUCATION/TRAINING

The Resident Pager - Introduction of a Telephone Triage Training Program

Optimizing Resident Learning in the NICU

 

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

The Primary Care Research Agenda – The Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) Perspective

 

CLINICAL

Fractional Excretion of Urea in a Pediatric Population

Adolescent PCOS as Precursor of Adult PCOS and Insulin Resistance

Mechanism of Scald Injuries

Perceptions of Burn Safety

Breastfeeding and the Prevention of Atopy

Effects of Repeated GnRH Agonist in Normal Men

 

BASIC SCIENCE

Genome analysis of  family with a unique hormone deficiency

MRSA & Cook County Jail: Analysis of Isolates that may be from CA Infections