Research Training

Department faculty and fellows presenting research

Faculty in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine are heavily involved in clinical research, educational innovations, and quality improvement initiatives.

The primary goal of the research component of the fellowship program is to aid in developing high-quality scholarly activity by the fellow. The program provides the fellow with guided research training and broad exposure to research experiences during the two years of fellowship. The choice of research project must be decided by the fellow with advice and approval from their mentor, the Fellowship Director and the Division Director. By the end of the first year, the fellow will have developed a research proposal. The second year of fellowship will be used to execute the research proposal. Progress and review of each fellow’s research project is monitored by a Scholarship Oversight Committee at regular intervals through the two years.

Areas of ongoing projects:

  • QI Projects
    • Interprofessional Difficult Conversations: Communication Skills to Build More Collaborative Teams
    • Improved Physician Nursing Communication Project
    • Improving Order Set Utilization for Pediatric Patients Diagnosed with Sepsis at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital
    • Evaluation of an EMR-Simulated Case-Based Ambulatory Education for Medical Residents
    • Participation site for Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes (IPSO) nationwide collaborative
    • Reducing rates of CLABSI in Pediatric Patients by Implementing a CLABSI Prevention Bundle Audit During Family Centered Rounds
  • Medical Education Innovations
    • Incorporation of simulation into medical education for students and residents
    • Trust-Based Relational Intervention Caregiving Training
    • Development of PHM Fellowship core curriculum
    • Passport lecture series for third-year core medical students
  • Clinical Research
    • Pediatric Osteomyelitis/Musculoskeletal Infections Clinical Pathway at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital
    • Zero Suicide prevention project at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital
  • Advocacy
    • Initiating a Social Determinants of Health Screening and Referral Process during Pediatric Hospitalizations
    • Pediatric Population Health Initiative: Describing the Gaps in Care Coordination from Healthcare Workers, Community Workers, and Patients’ Perspectives
    • Evaluating Social Determinants of Health Among Pediatric Patients and their Families through Geospatial Analysis
    • Legislative Advocacy 101, a pediatric residency curriculum