Scholarly Activities during fellowship

[bcmak]

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Hello everyone,

I'm aware that all pediatric subspecialties require a form of scholarly activity during fellowship and that most fellows participate in some form of research. I've been researching various fellowship websites and see that administrative duties or getting a masters also counts towards the scholarly activity as well? Could someone help me clarify as to what the ABP means? And what are some scholarly activities that you did during fellowship that wasn't just basic/translational/clinical research?

 

[Homunculus]

getting a MPH or something counts. it is somewhat fuzzy, but most people do some kind of research project, a QI/PI project and the normal fellow abstracts and posters and such. you have to have some kind of final work product of enough magnitude for the program to send an acceptable packet to the ABP for you to sit for boards. i'm in the process of finishing now, it's not as onerous as it may seem when you come in.

--your friendly neighborhood manuscript revising caveman

 

[Stitch]

While I generally disagree with extending fellowship by years in order to do research that may or may not be continued after one leaves, I must admit you learn a lot and there are lots of ways to fulfill the requirement. You have to do something that qualifies as research as well as some sort of QI project. The two can be combined into one to make it a little easier. Master's programs require a master's thesis, which is can be your research/QI project. Remember that the project is in addition to your classroom work, which is in addition to your clinical duties, so a master's can be quite time consuming if you're doing a clinically busy fellowship such as PICU, NICU, EM. Funding is sometimes an issue and many institutions may require you to apply for a grant in order to pay for it. You can obtain a master's of public health, and I 've seen some programs that offer master's of science in clinical investigation (MSCI). It just depends on what you want to do.

Some QI things that didn't count as research was evaluating rapid response data in relation to bounce backs from the PICU. That's looking at our institution's internal systems and not necessarily publishable, but is still valuable to the the institution. One of my classmates also went back and looked at arrest data in the cardiac ICU, plotting out arrest times in relation to return from OR, amount of bleeding, time of ICU drop off, that sort of thing. This was extremely important and led to changes in the way we get patients out of the OR and how handover is done.