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The Scholarly Project is a required 4-year longitudinal course designed to stimulate critical thinking, enhance intellectual acuity and inquisitiveness, and to foster excellence in the development of clinician educators, clinician scientists and physician investigators. The SP allows medical students to conduct research with a faculty mentor on a topic of interest in the fields of health and health care. Students are enrolled in MED 820A during the first semester of their Scholarly Project.
The overarching goal of the course is to provide all medical students with the necessary educational and practical tools to pursue a highly successful and productive career in clinical or academic medicine. Related goals include:
1. Through completing a hypothesis-driven project, students will generate new knowledge, using scholarly approaches
2. Through participation in learning sessions, gain a foundation in scientific method, critical thinking, and translational research
3. Helping students refine and differentiate their own career and specialty orientation prior to application for residency.
To achieve these goals, the Scholarly Project Program has two components:
1) a didactic component consisting of lectures, small group sessions and completion of training through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)
2) a student Scholarly Project (SP).
The didactic component of the SP will provide all students with an understanding of basic research principles, including but not limited to the responsible conduct of research. These sessions are also part of Pathways to Health in Medicine, the Evidence-Based Medicine thread, as well as some sessions are standalone Scholarly Project times.
Conducting and completing the SP will provide all students, regardless of their ultimate career path, an enhanced appreciation and understanding of the linkage between research scholarship and health and health care.

MED820A
a. Orientation and Introduction to the Scholarly Project
In the first week of matriculation, all students must attend an orientation to the Scholarly Project, and an introduction to the full course MED820A-H. As part of this orientation/course introduction, students will be queried as to areas of interest to them as potential SP topics.
b. Attend all lectures/sessions on Evidence-Based Medicine
c. Successfully complete the following CITI modules:
Biomedical Research Investigators
Responsible Conduct of Research

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