Department of Research and Academic Affairs - Graduate Medical Education at Larkin

About The Department

Vision

Larkin Health aspires to create a community built on Education, Research, Collaboration, and Innovation. To achieve this transformative goal, it is essential that clinical faculty, fellows, residents, and students engaged in research experiences employ a scholarly approach to teaching, clinical teamwork, and patient care.

Goal

The Department of Research and Academic Affairs at Larkin Community Hospital oversees the scholarly activities and initiatives associated with Medical Education. The department provides strategic leadership and administrative coordination to deliver short and long-term support to promote critical thinking and academic excellence in our medical programs and trainees. We are fully committed to fostering dynamic research education for the next generation of clinicians. We genuinely believe that the art of healing must be grounded in the pursuit of practice improvement by education and research advancement.

Mission

Our department mission is to foster programs that promote the interest of clinicians to conduct research, generate knowledge, and advance healthcare. We assist medical residents and fellows in:

Developing skills for the formulation of scholarly work such as posters, presentations, review of literature, and quality improvement.
Developing foundation skills for research inclusive of formulation of a research question, access to and analysis of data, review pertinent literature as well as prepare a well-organized research presentation, projects and posters.
Promote the research and scholarly work of residents, fellows and faculty of Larkin Community Hospital.
Work on Research Projects from conception through publication.
Preparing research presentations for Annual Scientific/Clinical Conferences.
Promote understanding of Institutional Review Board and related processes.
Providing learning experiences and resources for residents and fellows to help them complete their own research projects.