Scholarly Project

Developing Tomorrow's Leaders in Pediatrics

The goal of the UC Davis Pediatric Residency Program is to train outstanding pediatricians who will serve as leaders within their community and their profession. The Scholarly Project provides residents with the knowledge, skills, and experiences necessary to become a leader in their chosen field, whether in community pediatrics, academic pediatrics, or subspecialty pediatrics.

Year 1: Scholarly Focus Area Introduction

In the first year of residency, residents are introduced to four potential scholarly focus areas:

Research: Residents are exposed to the fundamentals of research through journal club discussions and research workshop sessions held during block didactic conferences. Workshop sessions include topics such as study design, formulation of specific aims, how to write an abstract, and how to present data in a poster.
Quality Improvement & Patient Safety (QIPS): Residents are introduced to the concepts of QIPS through a longitudinal QIPS curriculum and hands-on QIPS project.
Medical Education: Residents are introduced to resident-as-teacher educational modules beginning in intern orientation and throughout all three years of residency during retreats and block didactic conferences.
Community Health & Advocacy: First-year residents have a 1-month introduction to community health and advocacy.

In the winter/spring of Year 1, first-year residents work with a faculty mentor to design a scholarly project in one of the four focus areas.

Click here to see resident posters from the 2021 and 2020 poster sessions.

Years 2 & 3: Scholarly Project Work

Residents are given 4-weeks in Year 2 and 4-6 weeks in Year 3 to develop, implement and evaluate their scholarly project.

In May of Year 3, all senior residents present an abstract and poster based on their scholarly project at our annual Department of Pediatrics Research Symposium.