Medical Residency Research Training
The medical residency program has a rich history at GW, which in the 19th century was one of the first hospitals to start a clinical practice with resident student participation.
Research is an important component of the medical residency program, and most residency programs require participation in research activities.
Residents may take advantage of research opportunities at The George Washington University as well as at the nearby National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Food and Drug Administration.
Surgical residents, for example, complete one year of research during their residency, either at GW or at an affiliated institution in the Washington area. Pediatric residents assist with research at nearby Children’s National Medical Center. Residents in several departments collaborate with the NIH.
Research can be tailored to residents’ interest. For example, recent anesthesiology and critical care residents have conducted research on patient-controlled epidurals for women in labor and on the use of ultrasound to determine ideal injection sites for sciatic nerve block patients.
Residencies exist in the following departments:
- Anesthesiology & Critical Care
- Emergency Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Neurological Surgery
- Neurology
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Opthalmology
- Otolaryngology
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Urology
The programs page on the GW Graduate Medical Education Web site provides links to each department’s residency program.
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