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Scholarship and Resident Research Day
Scholarship is defined as the following:
a) the scholarship of discovery, as evidenced by
peer-reviewed funding or by publication of original
research in a peer-reviewed journal;
b) the scholarship of dissemination, as evidenced by
review articles or chapters in textbooks;
c) the scholarship of application, as evidenced by
the publication or presentation of, for example,
case reports or clinical series at local, regional,
or national professional and scientific society
meetings.
Each resident participates in at least on scholarly
activity during their residency. At the end of the
PGY2 year, each resident will choose a research mentor.
This choice will be based on the resident’s clinical and
research interests. The Department publishes an annual list
of the clinical and basic science faculty, their
research areas; and specific research projects they are
working on. In most cases, the mentor will be a member
of the primary neurology faculty, but occasionally this
could be a different faculty member, for example, if the
resident proposes to-do a basic science project. The
role of the mentor will depend somewhat on the nature of
the project to be performed.
With the research mentor, each resident will design a
research project during their PGY3 to be completed by
the spring of the PGY4 year. This project could range
from a case report to a chart review to a small clinical
or basic research project, but the emphasis will be on
originality. The resident will be asked to submit a
brief summary of the proposed project / case report by
early spring of the PGY3 year.
The resident may participate in other scholarly
activities with the mentor, such as authoring reviews or
book chapters, but this should not take the place of
original work / presentations.
There is an annual research day each spring for
residents to present their work (click
here to see Flyer for 2011). The focus is on
presentations by current neurology PGY4 residents, but other
residents and fellows from Neurosurgery, Pediatric
Neurology, Neuroradiology and Psychiatry, and graduate students from the Department of Neuroscience are encouraged to
participate and present as well. Awards are given to the resident(s) judged to
have the best presentation.
Above: Resident winners for the best
abstracts from Psychiatry, Neurology, Neurosurgery and
Neuroscience, together with Dr. Joseph Martin (alumnus
'67; Chair Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Neurology;
Dean Emeritus, Harvard Medical School; and keynote
speaker for the 2011 Neuroscience Research Days at Case
Western Reserve University). |
