Resident quality improvement research

The Office of Graduate Medical Education and Henry Ford Rochester Hospital held the 15th Annual QI Research Day program on Tuesday, April 21, via Zoom. The QI Research Day provides residents and faculty in our Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Transitional Year programs at Henry Ford Rochester with an opportunity to showcase their outstanding QI research projects.

The top four scorers of the QI Research Day will present their research at the 2026 SEMCME Research Forum & QIPS Summit, held jointly as a live event on Wednesday, May 20, at the Somerset Inn in Troy.  For details, visit SEMCME or contact GME Research Coordinator Heidi Kenaga.

Here is a recording of the event.  

Here are keynote speaker Robert Flora's presentation PPTs. 

Winners!  

Top scorer - will conduct oral presentation at SEMCME: 

Family Medicine - Efficacy of Abdominal Aortic Ultrasound Screening by Family Physicians, presented by Uddampreet Arora; co-authors Jamal Hoyte, Kyle Kluck, Mehak Ahmed, Saboria Thomas, Hardeep Garcha, Marcus Wong; faculty advisor Eleanor King

Second, third, and fourth scorers - will present posters at SEMCME: 

Family Medicine - Enhancing Timely Primary Care with a Same-Day Resident in an Academic Clinic, presented by Jasmine Aulakh; co-authors Sandy Phuengsomboonying, Niloufar Maktabijahromi, Maria Gutierrez Briones; faculty advisor Heidi Hilton Kosch 

Internal Medicine - Improving POCUS Use in an Internal Medicine Residency Program, presented by Arpita Mathews; co-authors Eli Diab and Hashim Rizwan; faculty advisor Vesna Tegeltija

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