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Providence Portland Department of Medical Education-Scholarly Activity

We believe scholarly activity amongst our residents and faculty is vital to our missions of high quality, evidence-based and cost-effective patient care and education. Our residents and faculty focus on a wide variety of projects from pure QI areas to qualitative educational projects. Some of our active projects are listed below as well as a selected list of recent presentations, publications and awards.

  • Resident Career Development: A Longitudinal Curriculum Curriculum development and Innovation workshop Alliance Skills and Leadership Conference, Grapevine, TX | October 2017 Sharon Kim, M.D.
  • Taking Time: Resident Resilience and Burnout. Poster Presentation, Collaborative Family Healthcare Association. Houston, TX | October 2017 Ryan Dix, PsyD (poster authors: Dix, R., James, T., Stephens, E., Cohen, R., Shumway, K.)
  • Suboxone: A Team Approach. Poster Presentation, Collaborative Family Healthcare Association Conference. Houston, TX | October 2017 Ryan Dix, PsyD (poster authors: Dix, R., Kai, M., Clark, B., White, J., Engstrom, K.)
  • Mari Kai and Courtland Childers lead a group focused on training our residents in bedside ultrasound skills. The group has developed a robust curriculum in basic bedside ultrasound techniques which will now be available as an elective for interested residents.

Our residents used many of the skills learned in the Quality Improvement Curriculum to prepare abstracts, posters and oral presentations for the American College of Physicians regional meeting in Salem, November 2017. Twelve of our residents presented clinical case vignettes, QI projects or original research projects. Pen Pedroja, MD (PGY-3) did an outstanding job with his oral presentation and was awarded 1st place in the Quality Improvement category. Elizabeth Hutchinson, MD (PGY-2) made it into the 2nd round in the Clinical Vignette category. John Mastronarde, MD provided an interesting talk on COPD titled, New Insights in COPD Management.

Summary of Project: While it has been recognized in the literature that burnout is quite impactful to medical students, residents and practicing physicians, little has been done in terms of interventions at the residency level to address the concern prior to going into practice. In response we have developed a resiliency curriculum. The purpose of this proposal is to create a cohesive curriculum, which provides residents with the tools necessary to sustain engagement in medicine, reduce the risk of burnout and depression, and ultimately help to create a more fulfilling personal and professional life. We are proposing a multi-faceted approach with a longitudinal curriculum over the course of 3 years to include several interventions. With pre and post assessment we hope to see reduced burnout, reduced depression and increased empathy. We also hope to be able to identify areas that facilitate resiliency more effectively than others than may be shared.