Research

OPTI-West is committed to fostering, developing, conducting and maintaining the philosophy and performance of research. Research is foundation to graduate medical education and along with education is a priority for OPTI-West, GME and Program Directors. Research is a means to build all residency programs, and build a knowledge base for training students, clinicians and academia. Research involvement inspires life-long scholarship, promotes the use and critical evaluation of medical literature, develops the ability to critically evaluate clinical outcomes using scientific method, and enables physicians to translate data in the medical literature into their practices. Therefore, OPTI-West, GME and Program Directors will provide the environment and opportunity, and encourage residents to understand research methodology, comprehend medical informatics, apply study designs and statistical methods to the appraisal of clinical studies, perform self evaluation of clinical practice patterns and practice-based improvement, participate in quality improvement and quality assurance activities, develop habits of lifelong learning and scholarly pursuit within their specialty and translate Medical Research into Patient Care.

Recently, ARMC and PHLB held their Annual Research Day sponsored by OPTI-West. The posters demonstrate to broad diversity of interest within the institutions. Some of the posters in no specific order follow.

2008 information coming soon

In addition to the above, residents and faculty are currently working on the following projects. If you are interested please contact them.

Women's Health-ARMC
Incidence of Umbilical Artery pH < 70 in Elective C/S at Term in Women Without Medical of Known Fetal Complications- Adair, Nichole
Acute Pancreatitis Complicating Pregnancy: A Six Year Institutional Experience With and Without Episiotomy- Prewitt, Lauren
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Study of Hysterectomy at a County Institution - Galbraith, Lisa

General Surgery-ARMC
Diabetic Foot - Nina Bowman
Inguinal Hernia - Tom Walbolt
Effects of Different Pain Medicines on Trauma Patients - Ravi Shah
Indications for Biopsy in Birads 3 Breast Lesions - Jason Tomsic
Comparison of Open and Laproscopic Appendictomy - Austin Nguyen

Neurosurgery-ARMC
Intraventricular tissue plasminogen in hypertensive basal ganglia hemorrhages - Dennis Cramer
Hypertonic saline vs. mannitol in head injured patients - Jon Taveau
Vertebroplasty in acute lumbar trauma - Gaytri Sonti
Metastatic anaplastic ependymom - Dan Hutton
Timing for surgical decompression for traumatic spinal cord injury - Nicholas Qandah
Preadministration of 3% NaCl for Prophylaxic treatment of Increased intracranial pressure associated with Severe closed head injury/Intracranial Hemorrhage - Elijah Wogu
Pituitary Carcinoma - Caroline Boorman
Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy - Ripul Panchal
Endoscopy for Tethered Cord - S. Yamada

Family Medicine-ARMC
Chronic disease (diabetes) and limb length difference - Luciano, Michael
Pediatric obesity and diabetes - Wadhwa, Gurinder
Chronic disease (diabetes) and limb length difference - Wilson, Katherine

Emergency Medicine-ARMC
Violence in the Emergency Room; a study of physical and verbal abuse experienced by emergentologist in a wide variety of emergency department settings - Snyder
Focuses patient assessment reduces need for ancillary testing in ED - Borger

Past Research Days:

ARMC Research Day 2007