Practice Based Learning

Residents must be able to investigate and evaluate their patient care practices, appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and improve their patient care practices.
Identify a problem, study (literature), discuss and suggest plan for improvement, allow time and collect the data.
1. Helping our residents become lifelong learners
2. Helping our residents evaluate the care they provide and formulate a way to continually improve upon it.

Practice Base Learning (PBL)	Tools	Expected	Score	PGY1	PGY2	PGY3
	Scholarly Project (PGY 2/3)
	Mentorship Groups	9
	Publications (bonus*)	0
	Chart Audit (bonus*)	0
	New Innovations Evaluations	9
	Consultation / Literature search (PGY 2/3)	9
	Autopsy Report (bonus*)	0
PBL Total Score PGY 2/3		27			12	16
PBL Total Score PGY 1		21		7.35

Practice Based Practice Projects 2009-2010

UT Internal Medicine Residency Program
1) PGY 2/3 PBL Project for:
           , MD

The above resident is scheduled to compete his/her PBL Project month
Title:

PBL Project Competed (see attached)
Yes or No

Program Director Assessment:

SCORE: __ 9 points for completed Project.

2)
Mentorship Groups
The Mentorship Groups are made up of one faculty and four or five residents. The Mentorship Groups are to advise residents in the areas of educational goal-setting, career planning, patient care, and scholarship. They are to also meet professional standards of behavior.

The volunteering mentors are:
Dr. Ragheb Assaly
Dr. Dinkar Kaw
Dr. Shobha Ratnam
Dr. Joseph Shapiro
Dr. Youngsook Yoon
Dr. Georgescu
Dr. Deepak Malhotra
Dr. Sam Bittar
Dr. Bryan Hinch
The incremental increase In-Training Exam for PGY 3 per mentorship group
The Mentorship Groups are to provide advising for residents in the areas of educational goal-setting, career planning, patient care, and scholarship. They are to also meet professional standards of behavior.

3) Scholarly Activities

An opportunity for residents/fellows and faculty to participate in research, as well as organized clinical discussions, rounds, journal clubs, and conferences. In addition, some members of the faculty should also demonstrate scholarship through one or more of the following: peer-reviewed funding; publication of original research or review articles in peer-reviewed journals or chapters in textbooks; publication or presentation of case reports or clinical series at local, regional, or national professional and scientific society meetings; or participation in national committees or educational organizations. (See Common Program Requirements).

Scholastics 2007-2009

55 peer reviewed publications.
32 abstracts accepted at ACP/Ohio other national meetings.
10 symposia
3 Resident Symposia Peter White Award
3 Fellow Symposia Thomas Walsh award
3 Practice Based Learning Symposia William Sodeman Jr. Award.
1 Bioinformatics Symposia

UT Internal Medicine Residency Program Publications for:

The above resident has the following publications/abstracts:
Publications:

First Author #
Non-First Author #

Abstracts:
First Author #
Non-First Author #

Abstract (first author) 1, Abstract (other than first author) 0.5, Peer review publication (first or last -corresponding- author) 4 points, other than first author (2 points)

SCORE: __________

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