A pediatric residency research requirement to improve collaborative resident and faculty publication productivity.
Involvement in a research project can teach training physicians about the scientific process involved in medicine. For this reason, the University of Hawai'i pediatrics department developed a Residency Research Requirement and Program (RRRP) in 2001. We studied a 14-year time period before and after the RRRP was initiated, and found a greater then ten-fold increase in resident publications and faculty involvement in these projects. Many of these manuscripts were the result of resident collaboration and this also increased significantly. The residents who later went into fellowship training were found to be more likely to publish their work. An RRRP encourages residents and faculty to become involved in research publications and other scholarly activities. Its development may help to motivate training physicians to learn important research skills.
University of Hawai'i, John A. Burns School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. davidk@kapiolani.org
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D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005178:Faculty; D006254:Hawaii; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education*; D011642:Publications