At UCSF Fresno FCM, we believe in providing you with the training that will empower you to serve your communities, make you autonomous in improving your work, and learn skills that will protect your wellness and provide you with a path forward while facing any difficult situation. Welcome to our multifaceted scholarly activity curriculum!
Our mission is to help our residents use their scholarly skills as a crucial element of advancing their careers and the care for their patients both during and after graduating from residency. During the three years at UCSF Fresno FCM, all residents complete a research project, and a quality improvement project. These two types of projects are intended to teach residents two different ways of solving problems. What are the main differences between the two types of projects?
Research is to create knowledge, and it is the only way to move healthcare in general, and more specifically family medicine into the new era of evidence-based care, and technological advancements. Research projects are more intensive, require more effort and greater amount of learning. The first steps towards creating a research project may seem daunting, but with structured learning, expert panel discussions and one-on-one mentoring with experienced faculty, we make it easy for residents to develop feasible projects in-line with their interests. Third year and senior residents show case their projects, along with residents from other residency programs at the Annual Research Expo held every year. We encourage our residents to submit their projects to national and regional conferences and support them in achieving higher goals.
Quality improvement and population health are crucial elements of our curriculum that teach residents ways to address healthcare process issues and supports self-improvement of clinical care at the clinic, hospital, or at the community level. Although less time consuming and labor intensive than research projects, we provide deep learning and several check-ins for residents to master these skills. There are no limitations to creating a feasible project and we work with our teaching partnering sites at the Community Health Centers, Family Health Care Network, United Health Centers of San Joaquin Valley and Camarena Health to help us pursue these projects.
Join our team or learn more about our curriculum by reaching out with more questions to the Director of Research and Scholarly Activity
Dr. Khan: [email protected]
Sireesha Reddy, MD
