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| Year 1 Fellowship |
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| 2008 - 2009 Academic Year |
| Departmental New Fellows Orientation | July 1, 2008 |
| IDP Submission | March 9, 2009 |
| Research Day Abstract | May 15, 2009 |
| SOC Face-to-face Review | May 21 & 27, 2009 |
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The Department of Pediatrics hosts its annual orientation for new fellows the first week of July, the start of the academic year. Members of the Fellows’ Leadership and Advocacy Group (FLAG) committee along with the help of department faculty and staff have developed the orientation in an effort to address important issues that fellows’ may have questions or concerns about. The orientation consists of a social mixer which includes program directors and coordinators. This provides an opportunity for fellows, faculty and staff to meet each other. In addition, fellows will receive hands on training on UCARE, and informational talks regarding information technology, ID badges, to transportation and admission issues.
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Each ACGME fellow is assigned a SOC subcommittee during year 1 consisting of approximately 5 academic Departmental faculty members representing both the physician scientist and clinician educator career tracks. The faculty composition of each fellow’s SOC subcommittee will remain the same for the most part throughout fellowship. During the spring of year 1, the fellow submits an Individual Development Plan (IDP) to their respective SOC consisting of a completed IDP, academic curriculum vitae (UCSF Academic CV format), ABP scholarly activity/work product abstract and scholarly activity related to the work product.
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At the end of the interview, the SOC discusses the scholarly activity progress. At minimum, in both the submitted scholarly activity/research abstract and during the face-to-face meeting with the SOC subcommittee, the fellow must articulate a research question, identify research mentors, and outline methodology and a general timeline for completing the project in order to be considered “on track” for appropriate progress for year 1 (please see ABP link for examples of acceptable abstract).
There are 3 possible outcomes of the SOC Report Summary for Year 1:
- Approved, acceptable progress to be reevaluated on schedule in Year 2;
- Approved, pending clarification to the SOC of queries outlined in the SOC Report Summary; or
- Deferred approval.
If a year 1 fellow receives a “pending until clarification” in the SOC Report Summary the fellow and program director will then be required to address the SOC ‘s queries in the manner and timeline defined by the SOC. Clarifications are usually requested when there is insufficient information in the packet to determine if the fellow is “on-track” for their level for their research/creative activity scholarly project or the fellow has changed topic areas of their research between the time they submitted their IDP packet and the face-to-face SOC meeting. Once an adequate response is received by the SOC office and approved by their SOC, the fellow’s IDP packet is approved for year 1 progress.
However, if a fellow receives a ‘deferred approval’, then a more formal reassessment as determined by the SOC will be required. The fellow, program director and mentor(s) must meet, review the report summary and SOC recommendations and formally submit an updated IDP plan to the SOC for re-assessment and approval. If the fellow fails to receive an approval rating on re-assessment, the fellow, mentors and the SOC will meet to discuss the progress. If necessary, the Chair of the SOC and /or the Chair of Pediatrics will interview the fellow and program director to assist in the evaluation and planning process.
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All fellows submit an abstract of their research progress to date for inclusion in the publication for the annual Departmental Research Day. Year 1 fellows are encouraged to complete the abstract form content appropriate to their progress on their scholarly / work product activity. At minimum, year 1 fellows should have identified a project, have a title, mentors, hypothesis/question and general idea of methodology. A reformatting of the scholarly research activity abstract (updated if needed) that was submitted to the SOC would be adequate.
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- ABP work product abstract from Year 1 IDP submission (updated, if needed)
- Follow abstract submission instructions for years 2 and 3
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- Basic Laboratory
- ResearchClinical Research (all other categories-RCTs, epidemiologic, health services, behavioral and other)
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| Abstract should be no longer than 300 words. All abstracts should contain the following components: |
- Name
- Division
- Title of Project
- Research mentor(s)
- Background: Statement of the issue under investigation
- Research Question(s) and Study Hypotheses
- Materials/Research Methods: Study design, experimental methods used, including statistical analyses employed
- Results: Specific findings
- Conclusions: Summary of findings which are supported by data presented
- Future directions: e.g., suggested next steps
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