General Scholarship Requirements for Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows from Pediatric Residency

The American Board of Pediatrics requires scholarship productivity (i.e., a written work product) for certification. Examples of scholarship activity include basic, clinical, or translational biomedicine, health services, quality improvement, bioethics, education, public policy, critical meta-analyses of the literature, systematic review of clinical practice, and curriculum development.

Work products include peer-reviewed publications, manuscript preparation under-review, postdoctoral theses or dissertations, extramural grant applications, or progress reports from extended projects such as clinical trials. Traditional training focuses on biostatistics, clinical and laboratory research methodology, study design, preparation of applications for funding and/or approval of clinical or research protocols, critical literature review, principles of evidence-based medicine, ethical principles involving clinical research, and the achievement of proficiency in teaching.

Scholarship for Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins All Children’s

Goals

1. Become comfortable planning and critically assessing research proposals with regard to feasibility, scientific legitimacy and ethical concerns.
2. Gain a practical knowledge of biostatistics in order to critically assess the medical literature and as a foundation for future research.
3. Produce academic work (original research, curriculum development, quality improvement project, etc.) to meet requirements of American Board of Pediatrics for subspecialty certification.

Year 1

1. Meet with PEM faculty and fellowship leadership to discuss faculty work and fellow’s broad research interest and identify research mentor.
2. Begin preliminary research project.
3. Create a preliminary list of Scholarly Oversight Committee (SOC) members.
4. Plan for Science of Clinical Investigation (SOCI) course work at the School of Public Health or discuss with program leadership plans for training in advanced degree.
5. Attending National PEM Fellows Conference and presenting research proposal.

Year 2

1. Begin study enrollment/data collection.
2. Second SOC meeting.
3. Attend the National PEM Fellows Conference and present a research project.

Year 3

1. Complete data collection, analysis and manuscript.
2. Third and final SOC meeting.