Scholarly Activities (Research)
Scholarly activities are essential components of residency training because it ensures that the residents are engaged in the process of translating their medical knowledge into informed evidence-based practices that improve patient care. All residents are required to participate in various scholarly activities, including research, quality improvement projects and conference presentations.
Multi-Disciplinary Medicine (MDM) Course
As part of a competency-based curriculum specifically designed for the internal medicine program, residents in their first year of training receive a multi-disciplinary medicine (MDM) course. The MDM course consists of series of lectures and workshops on biostatistics, clinical epidemiology (study design, clinical reasoning, and understanding clinical data), IRB process, social determinants of health, evidence-based medicine (EBM) search strategies and literature review.
During the three years of training, residents are required to meet the ACGME scholarly activities requirements through developing case reports, and a research or quality improvement (QI) project. The abstracts will then be submitted and presented at local, regional and national medical meetings.
Research Elective
Residents have the option of doing a 2-month research elective in clinical or basic science research during the three years of training.
Research Day
Sinai Grace Hospital conducts an annual Research Day event every year in the month of May or June in collaboration with the other ACGME and American Osteopathic Association (AOA) sponsored residency programs in the hospital. The Research Day is a multidisciplinary event that seeks to highlight the academic and scholarly activities achievements of all the departments’ medical trainees.
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Projects
Based on the ACGME requirements, residents complete CQI projects which address the six competencies in Internal Medicine training — “practice-based learning and improvement” and “system-based learning”. CQI project is a scholarly activity that seeks to improve health care delivery and patient care.
Quality & Safety
Sinai-Grace Hospital is committed to the highest standards of quality and safety, both for our staff and our patients. As part of the Detroit Medical Center, we are the only healthcare provider in the state to have implemented Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems at every hospital in our system.