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University of Maryland Capital Region Health has a local Research Review Committee (RRC) and partners with the University of Maryland IRB. 

We have an institutional Research Director who assists in mentoring of projects, overseeing the RRC, leading our research curriculum, and overseeing our Resident Research Day.

All residents are expected to engage in scholarly work during their training; however, we recognize and value that each resident may be interested in different types of scholarly work. Thus, we ask each incoming intern to select into a Scholarly Track. 

These tracks are meant to align with a resident's area of interest, and consist of asynchronous learning, regular meetings with like-minded residents and faculty, and a mentored project. 

Our tracks are:

  1. Physician Educator – for residents interested in medical education; residents learn about medical education theory, gain skills in topics such as orienting a learner and giving feedback, and practice giving formal didactics and building a teaching portfolio.  Capstone projects ideally center around curriculum design or assessment, or other educational work.
  2. Physician Scholar – for residents interested in traditional clinical research; residents gain CITI certification, submit PICO questions and then with a mentor write a research protocol to submit to IRB.  Capstone projects culminate with data collection and analysis.
  3. Patient Safety and Quality Improvement – for residents interested in these topics, and also who may be considering careers in hospital or ambulatory medicine.  Residents complete IHI certification and participate in our patient safety and quality elective. Capstone projects may be interdisciplinary and ideally align with institutional quality goals.
  4. Physician Leader
  • Subtrack: Health Advocacy – for residents interested in advocating beyond the level of the 1:1 patient encounter.  Residents work with representatives from Med Chi and gain experience with public narrative as they work to frame issues important to them for outward advocacy.
  • Subtrack: Health Administration – for residents interested in healthcare administration as a career path, or those with an entrepreneurial focus.  Residents work with hospital executives and gain experience with leadership and change theory, as well as better understanding of the day-to-day work in running a health care organization.

We expect residents to present their scholarly work at our Resident Research Day.  Winners of our local research day go on to present at our Regional Washington D.C. ACP resident research competition.  We also greatly encourage submission and presentation at national meetings and manuscript preparation. 

The office of Graduate Medical Education provides stipends for residents’ travel and conference fees when accepted to meetings or journals with IF >2.

Recent Resident Publications and Abstracts

  • Sandoshi, R., Patel, R., Patel, N., Bansro, V., Chhabra, G. A comprehensive review of thrombocytopenia with a spotlight on intensive care patients. Cureus. August 2022
  • Cardona S, Downing J, Alfalasi R, Bzhilyanskaya V, Milzman,D, Rehan M, Schwartz B, Yardi I, Yazdanpanah F, Tran Q. Intubation rate of patients with hypoxia due to COVID-19 treated with awake proning: A meta-analysis. American Journal of Emergency Medicine, January 27, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2021.01.058.
  • Dhahri A, et al. The impact of socioeconomic status on survival in stage III colon cancer patients: A retrospective cohort study using the SEER census-tract dataset. Cancer Medicine. 2021; 00: 1-10
  • Bolaji, Olayiwola. Acquired Long QT Syndrome: A unique case of paroxetine-induced stepwise rise and fall in QT interval via a KV1.5 channel inhibition mechanism. CHEST 2022
  • Bolaji, Olayiwola. Bleeding risk after coronary artery bypass grafting: Does the DAPT regimen matter? CHEST 2022.
  • Ouedraogo, Faizal. Thrombus in transit captured by bedside ultrasound: A life-saving tool. CHEST 2022.

Recent Faculty Publications and Abstracts

  • Ahmed S, Markoja K, Goldblatt A, Shinavski K, Fortier L, Brosnan M, Saulters KJ. "A qualitative analysis of the MedStar Global Health Track Pre-Departure Curriculum". Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference. March 2022.
  • Barth, S., Saulters, K. Balba, G., Castel, A. Telehealth experience and satisfaction during the COVID-19 Pandemic among PWH in D.C. Adherence Conference. 2022.
  • Cheema M, Butt Z, Gilani S, Shafiq S, Cheema S, Das M. Intensive Blood Pressure Control and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Elderly Patients: A Secondary Analysis of SPRING Study Based on a 60-year Age Cutoff. Am J Hypertens.2023 Aug 5;36(9):491-497.
  • Enayati D, Chan V, Koenig G, Povey K, Nhoung H, Becker L, Saulters KJ, Breed R, Jarris Y, Zarembka T, Magee M, Goyal M. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Food Insecurity in an Urban Emergency Department Patient Population. West J Emerg Med. 2023 Feb
  • Windels A, Felker R, Saulters KJ. "Experience with a Virtual IM Elective ". Academic Internal Medicine Week (AIMW). April 2022.
  • Zhang X, Liu B, Yun S, Phillips R. Chapter 13. Small Area Estimation and Bayesian Disease Mapping for Minority Health and Health Disparities. The Science of Health Disparities Research. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition.

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