Scholarly Work
At BMC, we’ve harnessed our family medicine department’s research and faculty expertise, and our residents’ and institution’s dedication to healthcare equity and quality, to implement an evidence-based scholarship program.
This three-year curriculum aims to assist residents in acquiring the tools they need to promote health equity and effect change in the communities, institutions and systems in which they work, via a mentored but self-directed scholarly project.
In the first year, residents conduct a month-long health-equity focused quality improvement project in their health center, integrated into ongoing health center quality initiatives. Starting in the second year, residents develop a mentored scholarly project, present updates of their work at monthly research in progress sessions, lead research-faculty mentored journal clubs, and attend skills-based scholarship workshops (e.g. survey design, literature review).
All residents are encouraged to present their work at scientific conferences. In the past year eight residents presented at STFM.
Recent Projects:
- Shadow Pandemics: Integrating Social and Health Needs through Integrated Virtual Care in a Neighborhood facing Structural Vulnerability Amidst COVID-19
- Vulnerability of Acute Care Hospitals to Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge
- Labor After Cesarean (LAC) Documentation on L&D: A Quality Improvement Study
- Cognitive Load Burden and Resident scheduling: Aligning Learner and Patient incentives
- Contraceptive Access and Unintended Pregnancies during the COVID-19 Pandemic at an Urban Federally Qualified Health Center
- Utilization of Harm Reduction Strategies at One Resident-Led Office-Based Addiction Treatment Center