Research Information

  • Scholarship is integral to residency in Internal Medicine and Wake's program is committed to making research a priority in your training.    At Wake Forest residents pursue scholarship through a variety of pathways:
     

Patient-centered clinical investigation

Laboratory based research

Health services research

Outcomes-based quality improvement projects

 

  • In order to provide guidance, the Department of Medicine maintains a list of available faculty research mentors, faculty research liaison's in each section and active research projects appropriate for resident involvement.  Our faculty welcomes and encourages resident participation in established projects as well as providing mentoring for the development of new proposals. 

 

  • The Residency Program supports elective time for research beginning in internship and builds on this experience during research electives during the HO2 and HO3 years.  We also provide funds for resident presentations at regional and national meetings. Residents participating in research electives submit a written proposal outlining their research question, underlying hypotheses and experimental design. 
  • Residents discuss their research ideas with their colleagues during a monthly research forum and present their work at the Annual Resident and Fellow Research Day. Residents may fulfill the scholarship requirement through participation in Quality Improvement projects in the hospital, clinic or community.
     

  

              *ACM-R: Assistant Chief of Medicine (Chief Resident) for Research


 

  • Wake Forest offers a Research Pathway for selected residents with exceptional interest in a career as a physician-scientist. The goal of this pathway is to identify and help prepare young physicians with a research background and specific research interests for careers in basic or clinical research. Residents interested in the Research Pathway are identified during the application process allowing time for coordination of residency training with subsequent subspecialty fellowship.   Residents on the Research Pathway complete two years of clinical residency prior to beginning their subspecialty fellowship. Details of the ABIM Research Pathway are available through the ABIM web site:  www.abim.org/cert/respath_pp.shtm