Overview
Scholarly activity is one of the most important part of the Cleveland Clinic’s mission and an integral part of each internal medicine resident’s clinical training.
We believe that physicians must be able to:
- Access, critique and synthesize medical data from the literature and apply it to patient care.
- Ask appropriate questions and generate and test hypotheses based on their own experiences.
We also believe it is imperative to effectively share information with patients and other professionals both orally and in writing.
Thus, we have developed an exciting program to assist residents in completing their scholarly activity requirements.
Minimum Requirement
The Cleveland Clinic requirements for all categorical internal medicine residents include:
- Completion of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) course.
- Completion of the Citi course on human subjects research.
- Completion of a one-on-one teaching session with a reference librarian.
- Completion of a 30-60 minute oral presentation.
- Completion of a written project suitable for publication or presentation at a national meeting.
- Completion and presentation of a poster during the Annual Cleveland Clinic Internal Medicine Resident Scholarly Activity Day and Reception for Poster Presentations.
Residents can use a variety of study designs for their written projects and poster presentations, including, but not limited to, retrospective chart review, prospective study, meta-analysis, or clinical trial. A medical education, medical history, quality improvement, or cost-effectiveness study may also be an appropriate project.
Classes are available to residents in the medical center to help them acquire the skills necessary to complete their scholarly activity requirements and to prepare them for a lifetime of self-directed learning and enhanced competitiveness in the academic or job market arenas.
Support of Resident Research
Cleveland Clinic Internal Medicine Residents are not only mentored in their research but are also strongly encouraged to present their data at regional and national meetings and publish abstracts, articles, and book chapters. Our 115+ medicine faculty include many nationally and internationally known clinician researchers and educators who are available to serve as research mentors. The program has funds to facilitate 2nd and 3rd year resident presentations at national research meetings.
The 2023-2024 PGY-3 class completed the following during residency training:
- 244 publications.
- 210 presentations.
- 252 abstracts.
Our residents were funded to attend and present their work at the following Conferences….
American Heart Association, Digestive Disease Week, American College of Cardiology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Hematology, American College of Physicians, National Institutes of Health, Society of General Internal Medicine, American College of Gastroenterology, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Society of Nephrology, American College of Chest Physicians, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, American Society for Radiation Oncology, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, European Society of Endocrinology, Society of Nuclear Medicine, Endocrine Society, American Epilepsy Society, American Academy of Dermatology, American Academy of Allergy, American College of Allergy and Immunology, American Thoracic Society.
Our residents published their work in the following Journals….
Nature, PLOS One, BMJ, JACC, JAMA, NEJM, Chest, Gastroenterology, Lancet, Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Journal of Immunology, Obesity Reviews, Thrombosis Research, JGME, Journal of Cellular Physiology, Pulmonology, BMC, American Journal of Clinical Oncology, Dermatology, American Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cancer Research International, Journal of Cancer, Neurocritical Care, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Clinical Endocrinology, Transplantation, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
Activity Day
Annual Cleveland Clinic Internal Medicine Resident Scholarly Activity Day and Reception for Poster Presentations
Held in the late Spring, the Internal Medicine Residency Program sponsors a poster session and reception showcasing resident research. The reception is attended by staff, research mentors, and residents. Projects run the gamut of medical specialties and general medicine including basic science, quality improvement, medical education, and clinical research.
Past Annual Scholarly Activity Days featured posters, a food and wine reception, a visiting professor, and music.
2024 Scholarly Activity Program Research Competition
Award Winners
Arjun Chatterjee, MD
“NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY PANCREAS DISEASE (NAFPD) OUTCOMES: NOT AS BENIGN AS IT SEEMS”
(Mentor: Prabhleen Chahal, MD - Gastroenterology)
Alvin Kwon, MD
“Diversity of kidney biopsy findings among diabetic patients in the Cleveland Clinic Kidney Biopsy Epidemiology Project”
(Mentor: Shane Bobart, MD – Kidney Medicine)
Ian Persits, DO
“Impact of Untreated Chronic Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease on Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement”
(Mentor: Rishi Puri, MD, PhD - Cardiovascular Medicine)
QI Project Winner
Paul Nurse, DO
“Prescribing Exercise - A Quality Improvement Project to Increase Exercise Prescriptions in Primary Care”
(Mentor: Jessica Donato, MD – Hospital Medicine)
Honorable Mentions
Valentina Ardila, MD
“Impact of Obesity on GVHD and Transplant Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Allogenic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant for Hematologic Malignancies”
(Mentor: Betty K. Hamilton, MD - Hematology and Medical Oncology)
Utkarsh Goel, MD
“Outcomes of patients with multiple myeloma refractory to standard dose vs low dose lenalidomide”
(Mentor: Shaji Kumar, MD - Hematology, Mayo Clinic)
Ahmed Nadeem, MD
“Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease Activity is Associated with Psychiatric Co-morbidities and Risk of Suicide: A Multi-Network Propensity Matched Cohort Study”
(Mentor: Miguel Regueiro, MD – Gastroenterology)
