The Department of Medicine’s commitment to resident education is reflected clearly in the opportunities, encouragement and support provided for resident research.

The PGY-1 research rotation includes supervised experience in computer-assisted literature searching, an introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics and instruction in critical review of the medical literature. Residents select an area of interest and present their findings at the annual Department of Medicine Resident Research Symposium.

A number of research projects initiated in the PGY-1 year have culminated in presentations at national meetings or publications in peer-reviewed journals.

The Department of Medicine encourages all residents to participate in scholarly activity and we are especially proud of their research achievements.

Resident Research Projects

• Quality of life after angioplasty
• Cyclosporin and its relationship to organ transplant rejection
• Long-term outcome in patients with Stanford Type B acute aortic dissection
• Assessment and management of pre- and post- transplantation osteoporosis
• Evaluation of rotational coronary atherectomy
• Determinants of Epogen responsiveness in patients with chronic renal failure
• Acute ischemia following coronary artery bypass graft surgery
• Primary biliary cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis C infection
• Ethnic differences in long-term renal allograft functions
• Pleural effusion following orthotopic liver transplantation
• Efficacy of chemotherapy in elderly patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
• Application of comfort scales in the medical intensive care unit