UTMB

COMPETENCY DOMAIN: MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE  

Demonstrate a clear understanding of one’s area of research and the background involved in the research questions being investigated.

Understand how the research question may influence patient care and our general medical knowledge.

Acquire knowledge in organizing and implementing a project to test a hypothesis or to generate a meaningful Case Report

Demonstrate competency with research design and methods of statistical analysis necessary for one’s own research.

COMPETENCY DOMAIN: PATIENT CARE  

Demonstrate competency at translating the significant of research to clinical care.

COMPETENCY DOMAIN: SYSTEMS-BASED PRACTICE  

Begin to understand how medical research questions arise, get developed into answerable hypothesis, are  developed into an answerable hypothesis, are approved by regulatory boards, and how data is gathered, entered and analyzed before being converted into understandable presentations (manuscripts, posters, abstracts, etc)

Learn the function of the Institutional Review Board to protect human or animal subjects.

COMPETENCY DOMAIN: COMMUNICATION & INTERPERSONAL SKILLS  

1. Present research progress and final results to the Resident Research Committee. 

Describe research summary through preparation of an abstract, submitted to the Texas Pediatric Society in PGY3 year

Prepare, present and defend research publically at a professional meeting. 

COMPETENCY DOMAIN: PRACTICE-BASED LEARNING & IMPROVEMENT