During the past academic year, our Associate Program Director Dr. Tess McCready mentored 2 of our Transitional Year residents resulting an astonishing 5 peer reviewed publications accepted into a variety of medical journals.  Also during the past academic year, Dr. Salieha Zaheer, Dr. Elizabeth Towner and Dr. Pierre Morris worked with 2 of our now graduated Family medicine residents and published an article in the medical journal, “Surgical Case Reports” (May 2020). Additionally Dr. Salieha Zaheer collaborated with Dr. Jinping Xu on a second publication accepted in “Surgical Case Reports” (January 2020). During this academic year Dr. Zaheer is hard at working writing and editing a faculty guide handbook chapter entitled, “Transition of Medical Students to First Year Residents” which is supported by an AMA grant. This project is expected to be submitted for publication in May 2021.  In collaboration with our WSU GME office (Drs. Tsveti Markova, Brent Stansfield, Heidi Kenaga, and Martha Jordan), Dr. Pierre Morris and Dr. Sarwan Kumar (Program Director / Internal Medicine) submitted an article to the Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviewed which was accepted for publication December 2020.  During the 2020-21 academic year, Dr. Pierre Morris was awarded a $2000 seed grant from the WSU GME office to fund the project entitled, “Health, Happiness, and Doctor-Patient Relationships: A Primary Care Study”.  This longitudinal study focuses on how patients’ personality traits/disorders and psychopathology impact their perception of the doctor/patient relationship. Dr. Morris is collaborating with Dr. John Porcerelli (former DFMPHS faculty) with 3 of his graduate students on this project.  This longitudinal study is being conducted in our family medicine center in Rochester. 

All of our residency faculty are advisors and champions on a variety of Quality Improvement projects which are anticipated to result in multiple peer reviewed publications in the future.