Research & Scholarly Activity
The goals of the NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Department of Emergency Medicine are to improve clinical care by conducting research at the intersection of academic and community medicine and to develop scientifically literate emergency physicians by providing an opportunity to work with productive academic emergency physicians. Our areas of expertise include medical education and simulation.
ACGME Requirement
The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education requires each physician in graduate medical education to complete a research project with academic merit. Examples of projects include case reports, systematic reviews, or clinical research. Residents may start their own projects or join an ongoing project. This decision is made in concert with the resident’s mentor and research faculty.
During the PGY-1 year, the resident identifies an area of interest through increasingly clinical exposure and attendance at research meetings. During the PGY-3 year, the resident participates in a two-week RAMER (Research And Medical Education Rotation). This exposes the resident to the basics of how to teach medical students and interns and provides protected time for the resident to bring his or her interest into focus. During the two week RAMER rotation, the resident is immersed in the medical education of junior learners through a combination of on-shift teaching and leading small group didactics. Additionally, they learn to critically appraise literature through the creation of an educational blog post.
Projects are reviewed at the EM Research meeting. NewYork-Presbyterian Queens utilizes a structured point system that assigns numerical points to each project and type and scholarly activity. Residents must accumulate 100 points to satisfy their research requirement.
Support
The Emergency Department has departmental and hospital funding, statistical data analysis, and data visualization software. The department additionally has standing relationships with biostatisticians, consultant availability, and access to volunteer research associates to assist in data collection and entry. The department will fund presentation of a resident’s work at a regional or national conference. Beyond the resources of the Emergency Department, all NewYork-Presbyterian Queens residents benefit from access to the Theresa Lang Center for Research, which provides support for IRB applications, review of study design, and statistical analysis.
Journal Club
We conduct monthly internal and external journal club sessions. A core faculty member and a chief resident or RAMER resident lead each session. Each session typically covers 2-3 thematically related articles. The discussion of scientific articles is important in learning how to appraise the literature and integrate it with the realities of clinical medicine in a specific region.