Scholarly Activity
Residents are required to complete a scholarly activity project by the middle of their third year of training. These projects offer many varied opportunities including traditional research projects, quality improvement research, curriculum development, case reports, as well as community education projects. (see table below)
Scholarly Project Opportunities
Clinical Research |
Basic Sciences Research |
Case Report |
Case Series |
Chart Audit/Quality Assurance |
Patient / Community Education |
Book Chapter or Review Article |
Community / Health Policy Project |
Instructional / Curriculum Design |
Each year Stony Brook residents are selected to present their research at regional and national meetings. The Department of Pediatrics fully funds resident attendance at meetings where they are presenting their work.
Residents have the opportunity to attend various national conferences. Several residents each year attend the AAP National Educational Conference, as well as conferences in the pediatric specialties.
Resident Research/Scholarly Projects
Examples of current research and recent research projects that have been presented or accepted for presentation or publication.
Examples of Recent
Resident Research/Scholarly Projects
| Aarat Patel | Rituximab for Severe Refractory Pediatric Wegener's Granulomatosis. Journal of Clinical Rhuematology. |
| Laura Hogan | Bone Mineral Density in Survivors of Lymphoid Malignancy Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting 2006 and 2007 |
| Alicia Leiby | Drinkable aloe vera gel for irritable bowel syndrome in children In progress |
| Ali McGaw | Trisomy 2 Mosaicism in Hypomelanosis of Ito American Journal of Medical Genetics, 2007 |
GCRC
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, The General Clinical Research Center provides on-going available support and resources for investigators to conduct research on human subjects for the advancement of medical science. The vision is to maintain National Institute for Health (NIH) funding as a clinical research center and to become one of the leading research centers in the region/country.
