title: Scholar quest: a residency research program aligned with faculty goals.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The ACGME requires that residents perform scholarly activities prior to graduation, but this is difficult to complete and challenging to support. We describe a residency research program, taking advantage of environmental change aligning resident and faculty goals, to become a contributor to departmental cultural change and research development.
  
  
  METHODS
  A research program, Scholar Quest (SQ), was developed as a part of an Information Mastery program. The goal of SQ is for residents to gain understanding of scholarly activity through a mentor-directed experience in original research. This curriculum is facilitated by providing residents protected time for didactics, seed grants and statistical/staff support. We evaluated total scholarly activity and resident/faculty involvement before and after implementation (PRE-SQ; 2003-2005 and POST-SQ; 2007-2009).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Scholarly activity was greater POST-SQ versus PRE-SQ (123 versus 27) (p<0.05) with an incidence rate ratio (IRR)=2.35. Resident and faculty involvement in scholarly activity also increased PRE-SQ to POST-SQ (22 to 98 residents; 10 to 39 faculty, p<0.05) with an IRR=2.87 and 2.69, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Implementation of a program using department environmental change promoting a resident longitudinal research curriculum yielded increased resident and faculty scholarly involvement, as well as an increase in total scholarly activity. [West J Emerg Med. 2014;15(3):299-305.].
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
authors.forename: Ashish R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Panchal
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
authors.forename: Kurt R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Denninghoff
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
authors.forename: Benson
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Munger
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
authors.forename: Samuel M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Keim
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology