Women’s Health Research Concentration

PGY1

• Residents would self identify as being interested in pursuing the women’s health research (WHR) track

• Submit application including

  • Letter of intent/personal statement describing what they want to pursue within women’s health, how this would help them in their future ambitions and what their future plans are. 

  • Model application after the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Program application

• Application presented to selection committee

  • One resident would be chosen as the women’s health research track resident

 PGY2

• Elective time scheduled so that the WHR is able to participate in the Division of Research Fellow’s Course in Clinical Research Design (last two weeks in July)

• Intensive research schedule at the same time to construct a research proposal in conjunction with mentorship

• Expected to present their research proposal to the women’s health research group

• Present Research Proposal at Grand Rounds

• Protocol development

• IRB submission

• Data collection/data entry

PGY3

• Completion of the project

  • Data collection

  • Data entry

  • Analysis

• Present completed project to Women’s Health Research Group

• Present at Resident Research Day

• Abstract prepared for submission to a national meeting (ex. ACOG, ASRM, SMFM, APHA)

 PGY4

• Manuscript preparation and submission

• Write a proposal for next steps in their research agenda

• Grand Rounds presentation on a women’s health topic

  • Hopefully be inclusive of their area of research

Other opportunities

• Participation in the women’s health research group

• Brown Faculty Development Seminars

• Travel to professional meetings geared towards research or public health interests (ex.  if they are pursuing a project on maternal child health, that they would go to a conference that focused on maternal child health epidemiology or public policies)

• Funds for research (through Medical Education)

• PGY2 and PGY3 expected to spend elective time pursuing expectations of the women’s health track

• PGY4 expected to spend 3-4 weeks (1-2 flexible days per week on the Gyn rotation) pursuing the women’s health track requirements

• Mentorship

• Exposure to Department of Public Health

  • Office of Women’s Health Advisory Committee

  • Primary Care Advisory Committee

  • Other policy oriented committees

• Exposure to other policy related programs such as the Attorney General’s Task Force to End Sexual Violence

Expected Outcomes

• By the middle of the third year the resident will make application to a post-residency training fellowship (e.g., RWJ, BIRCH, etc), if that is the track the resident plans to pursue.

• It is expected that the resident will pursue an academic career, and that the resident should be pursuing this career during the third year and certainly by the fourth year.

• The resident will have a paper accepted for publication by graduation.