Improvement of Resident Scholarship in an Internal Medicine Training Program

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The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) stipulates that residents must participate in scholarship, and programs must provide curricula to accomplish this. Residents understand that they should participate in scholarly activity, but are often dissatisfied with their program’s approach.¹ Evidence of effective interventions that lead to tangible scholarship in 3-year residencies is inconsistent. Recent systematic reviews have described initiatives utilized by ACGME programs to increase scholarship.^2,3 Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) Internal Medicine (IM) residency program educates a diverse group of civilian and active duty military residents. We initiated simple, reproducible interventions to improve resident participation in and understanding of the medical research process, based on previously published methods.^2‐6 …