Join Logan and Dr. Gulrajani, Program Director for Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Minnesota, as they discuss faculty and resident scholarly project program requirements.

Links

• Podcast Website
• Program Director Website
• A Ban By Any Other Name (article mentioned around 15:00)
• ACGME Specialty Specific Scholarly Project Requirements
• For the complete transcript, click here.

Question and Time

• When in your career did you first hear about scholarly projects? 01:28
• what types of scholarly projects are fellows or other trainees required to do? 02:18
• What counts as a scholarly activity? 03:03
• Do you find that it is hard to start original research and get it published within a year? 04:00
• Is there a required number of projects that every trainee must get during their time at the program? 05:14
• Do you find that a lot of your trainees come in motivated to start and complete these scholarly projects? 06:14
• How do you keep track of trainees completing their scholarly projects and keep them on track for completing it? 06:28
• Is your timeline you mention something that you created or the Department of Psychiatry or the ACGME recommends? 07:16
• How would you recommend that timeline to a program that maybe has 30/40 plus trainees? 07:38
• How do you identify a trainee that isn't making the progress that they should be in their scholarly project? 08:51
• How do you continue to help that struggling trainee progress through their project and timeline? 10:14
• What happens if you get to the end of a trainees training, and you find out that they did nothing on their scholarly activity? 11:12
• Have you had any experience with programs with 30/40 plus trainees and any recommendations on how to track their projects and progress through it? 12:27
• How do you set up the warm, calming environment so that the trainee feels comfortable coming to you with any issues, problems, or concerns they might have with their scholarly project? 14:27
• So, it sounds like you really foster this environment of the trainee coming up with their own idea and you're not pushing them into any idea? 17:02
• Do you have any recommendations for dealing with faculty and getting their scholarly projects? 17:55