Requirements
Residents are required to complete two scholarly activities, one of which must be a performance improvement (PI) project.
Residents are mentored by faculty and collaborate with the research staff from the Lancaster General Health Research Institute.
Recent Activities
Class of 2025
- Depression screening in barbershops and connection to care
- Evaluating visit volumes, provider/staff satisfaction, precepting ability and documentation completion with the transition to 20/40 minute visits
- Expanding OMT services for pregnant patients with musculoskeletal pain
- Baby Friendly breastfeeding initiatives
- Improving colorectal cancer screening rates
- Reducing hospital readmissions
- Identifying barriers in young adults to keeping office appointments
- Improving residents’ knowledge of DEI and cultural competency
Class of 2024
- Increasing acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines in rural Lancaster County
- Improving blood pressure control with home monitoring
- Improving outcomes for homeless patients after hospital discharge
- Expanding naloxone prescriptions for patients taking opioids for chronic pain
- Buprenorphine for OUD in primary care
- Improving screening for and management of intimate partner violence
- Case report and review article on Mpox
- Conference presentation of a case report of a patient with transient quadriplegia
Class of 2023
- Implementation of fourth trimester model
- Increasing HPV vaccination by targeting pregnant patients
- Opt-out mental health services program for interns
- Ward hand-offs using IPASS
- Emergency contraception education
- Pediatric asthma initiative
- Long acting emergency contraception
- Articles published in American Family Physician, Current Sports Medical Reports and Journal of Lancaster General Hospital
Class of 2022
- Increasing use of prenatal vitamins at Walter Aument Family Medicine Center
- Increasing HPV vaccination by targeting pregnant patients
- Emergency Contraception Education
- COVID-19 and vitamin C
- Feasibility of a 4th trimester program
- Improving Family Medicine Inpatient Service Chalk talks
- IPASS Family Medicine Inpatient Service handoffs
- Improving blood pressure control by providing home BP cuffs
Class of 2021
- Improving resident comfort discussing childhood obesity
- Medication agreements and urine drug screens for chronic opioid use
- Increasing routine GU exams during well child checkups
- Improving provider efficacy for Reach Out and Read
- Improving residents' comfort doing anticipatory guidance at well child checkups
- IMPLICIT: Improving prenatal vitamin use
- Fourth Trimester Pilot Project
- Use of Vitamin C with COVID-19 patients
- Diagnosis and management of congestive heart failure
- Management of HIV in pregnancy
- Diagnosis and management of thrombocytopenia in pregnancy
- Management of the third stage of labor
- Diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus type 2
- Prevention of Group B streptococcal early-onset disease