Clinical Quality Improvement (QI) or Clinical Research rotations provide the resident with opportunities
- to dive deeper into an imaging area, and develop expertise
- to use analytical and research methods to solve problems arising in the clinical environment
- to critically evaluate research and scholarship in medical physics
- to build their portfolio of published or presented work by writing up and/or presenting their projects
- To further develop collaborative relationship in the Medical Physics Community
Publication of research is not a program requirement but is highly encouraged and supported as career-beneficial for the resident.
Clinical QI or Clinical Research rotations will run concurrently with clinical training rotations and are divided between YR1 and YR2 projects.
Project and Mentor assignments;
Clinical imaging faculty are invited to submit proposals for resident research and/or clinical quality improvement projects.
Projects will be reviewed by the program director. Those projects with applicability to the clinical practice of medical imaging physics, complementary to their core clinical rotations, will be sent to the residents prior to the start of their Y1 or Y2. Residents will connect with primary mentors of their projects of interest, working with the program director to have a project and mentor selection prior to the start of Y1 and Y2.