Scholarly Project

Scholarly Activity or Community Project

It is the goal of the University of Minnesota Pediatric Residency Program to train clinically competent pediatricians and to assist development of interest in scholarly and advocacy activities.  To promote these goals, the residency program will require all graduates to have completed a scholarly activity or community project by the end of their 3rd (peds) or 4th (med/peds) year of training. 

Scholarly Activity/Project Approval Form (Word document)

Options include:

• Completion of a clinical or epidemiological project that is approved by a faculty member of the program.  Residents can utilize up to 3 months of elective time for completion of a project.  A completed project may result in an article for submission to a journal, presentation at Grand Rounds, or a poster presentation at a national conference.

• Participation in a community project that is approved by a faculty member of the program.  This may be an existing project or one developed by the resident.

• Written case report for submission to a peer reviewed journal.

• Presentation of a clinical case at the 3M conference.  There will be a limit of 2 resident presentations per month.  Residents must identify this option by the end of December of their 2nd year and will occur on a first come first serve basis recognizing the limit of 2/month (24 total).

• Activities on either pediatrics or internal medicine will apply to this expectation for the medicine/pediatric residents.

Faculty mentoring is an essential component of this requirement.  As part of the Academic Mentoring Program, faculty mentors will be expected to discuss options for a scholarly activity or community project with their resident advisee in the first year of the resident’s training.  Residents are not limited to their mentor when pursuing a specific scholarly activity.  In addition to the faculty mentor, a chief resident will be identified to work with residents who select a clinical presentation at 3M.

Pediatric residents expected to graduate June 2004 will be the first group to which this expectation is applied with July 2003 – June 2004 as the first year to see completion of this expectation and July 2004 – June 2005 for medicine/pediatric residents. 

Reviewed and approved by REC and RRC
First approved January 2002, updated June 2002

Attendance at National Conferences

There is program support available to send residents to national conferences including SPR/APS, AAP and other national meetings.  This is intended to support residents with abstract and poster presentations by covering the cost of hotel, transportation, and registration.

Resident Scholarly Publications

Schultz KA, Sencer S, Messinger Y, Neglia J, Steiner M. Pediatric Ovarian Tumors: A Review of 67 Cases. Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2005. 44:167-173.

Walter EC , Wendorf R, Kim Y. Fluid Resuscitation in the Intensive Care Unit. New England Journal of Medicine 2004. 351(18):1905-1908.

Lynch B, Herrington CS, Brown DL, Braunlin E. Thyroid dysfunction in pediatric  post-operative cardiac patients, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2004; 127(5):1509-11.

Brakke NR , Campbell NF , Kriel RL , Rockswold GL , Kiragu AW. Safe and effective treatment of refractory intracranial hypertension with decompressive craniectomy in pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury. Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting 2005.

Campbell NF , Brakke NR , Kriel RL , Rockswold GL , Kiragu AW. Safe and effective treatment of intracranial hypertension with 23.4% saline in pediatric traumatic brain injury patients. Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting 2005.

Nicolas RT , Hills C, Moller JH, Huddleson CB , Johnson MC. Early outcome after Glenn shunt and Fontan palliation and the impact of operation during viral respiratory season: analysis of a 19-year multi-institutional experience. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2005. 79:613-7.

Hills C. Contemporary Pediatrics Puzzler. In press.

Chamberlain MC , Akin EU , Kurt MH , Schwarzenberg SJ. Minocycline-induced autoimmune hepatitis with subsequent cirrhosis. Journal of Pediatric Gastoenterology and Nutrition. In press.

Faulkner JM, Carolan PL. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in a 4-year-old girl. Hopsital Physician 2005 37-43.

Colianni S, Ping J, Fischer PR , Freese D, Chan K, Alkuraya FW. Index of Suspicion. Peds in Review. 2004 (25) 289-294.

Twente J, Strauss R. A rapidly deteriorating baby girl: Can you judge this book by its cover ? Contemporary Pediatrics 2005. 22(6) 18-22, 72.

McGuinn, Tracey. Beyond the Pale. Contemporary Pediatrics. In press.

Guenther-Grey CA , Varnell S, Weiser JI, Mathy RM , O'Donnell L, Stueve A, Remafedi G, and the CITY Study Team. Trends in sexual risk-taking among urban young men who have sex with men 1999-2002. Journal of the National Medical Association. 2005 97(7): 38-43S.