Housestaff team research in the ambulatory setting: it can be done. Internal Medicine Clinic Research Consortium Faculty.

Training in research has been recognized as an important component of internal medicine training. To provide a research experience for their residents, the authors established a team research project designed and implemented by postgraduate year-2 and -3 internal medicine trainees with guidance from general medicine faculty. A successful research project was conducted by trainees, which resulted in an award-winning poster presentation at a scientific meeting and publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The process of conducting a resident faculty team research project in the ambulatory care setting is described in this report. The authors encourage other internal medicine programs to consider resident team research efforts to expose a large number of trainees to a research experience.