To fulfill the Scholarly Activity requirement, each resident must participate in or complete one of the following by the end of his or her residency:

1. Original research project:

   The resident ideally is principal investigator. Presentation of the protocol and/or completed project at EM Research Day is required. A written manuscript, although encouraged, is not required. At a minimum the resident must have completed the ethics process with a data collection process pending.

   
   

2. Evidence-based Medicine Critically Appraised Topic ("CAT"):

   The resident chooses a clinical question, searches the literature for pertinent articles, and writes approximately 10 one-page critiques using JAMA User’s Guides. For the FRCP program, the project should be set up as a literature review for publication (see systematic review).

   
   

3. Practice guidelines:

   Using evidence based medicine skills, the resident researches a clinical question, searches for pertinent articles, assesses their validity, and develops a departmental practice guideline. The resident may also develop an evidence based EMS protocol to be used by EMS.

   
   

4. Process Improvement Project/QI Project

   Healthcare process improvement activities (including the application of methodologies such as Lean) are quickly demonstrating the ability to help improve the quality of patient care and enhance the workplace for clinicians by eliminating the causes of waste and inefficiency. The opportunity exists for residents to participate in many of the on-going process improvement projects throughout the regional Emergency Departments. Residents can choose to evaluate the effectiveness of process innovations, or design their own process improvement projects.

   
   

5. Case report/ Case series:

   A publication-ready manuscript is required. This type of project is suited to the CFPC - EM Residency program.

   
   

6. Systematic review:

   The resident identifies a topic, performs a literature search, and prepares a manuscript.

   
   

7. Curriculum Development:

   The resident develops an evidence-based curriculum/course to be delivered by the department or by EMS. Evidence of education principles must be incorporated.

   
   

8. Product invention/development:

   The resident designs a medical product/device. A written description and prototype are required. In addition, the resident will review the patent process and protection of intellectual properties.

   
   

9. Informatics project:

   Health Informatics is defined as the intersection of health care, computer science, and information science. The goal of health informatics is to optimize the capture and utilization of health-related information to improve patient care and efficiency of the health care system, especially in relation to Emergency Medicine. Informatics projects can include the design and/or development of new informatics tools, assessment and evaluation of existing tools, and the innovative application of analytic tools and techniques to Emergency Medicine.