Research & scholarship
Graduate Medical Education at Wayne State is committed to encouraging a culture of scholarly inquiry in all its residency programs, and continually develops its evaluation and assessment activities in order to help faculty and residents optimize teaching and learning outcomes as well as contribute to the graduate medical education literature.
WSUGME residency programs have traditionally had high levels of productivity in designing, conducting and presenting outcomes for quality improvement (QI) projects. This is especially true for the Internal Medicine, Preventive, and Transitional Year programs, all of which achieved a 100% rate of participation by their residents in QI projects last year. Taken together, the average rate of resident involvement in QI projects was 84% in 2021-22.
Our primary clinical site, Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital, sponsors an annual Quality Improvement Research Day. The 2024 QI Day will be held on Tuesday, April 23, 2024.
To support resident scholarly productivity, GME administers a Seed Grant program, which competitively awards funds (typically between $500-2000) after an application and review process. Full details on the Seed Grant program may be found here or else contact GME Research Coordinator Dr. Heidi Kenaga.
In 2021, GME established the first annual Peter Svider Memorial Resident Scholarship Award, in honor of the late Dr. Peter Svider, who completed a residency from the WSUSOM Dept. of Otolaryngology in 2018. Dr. Svider wrote more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and 8 book chapters. The Svider Award is awarded once annually to a graduating resident or fellow in any GME program in recognition of distinctive achievement in scholarly activities across the entire period of training. Full details on the Svider Award will be found here or else contact GME Research Coordinator Dr. Heidi Kenaga.