Our Internal Medicine program provides each resident with excellent exposure to medical scholarship, the basis of quality improvement, clinical research methodology and evidence-based application of the medical literature. During their 3 years at Legacy, residents are required to:

• Conduct a medical scholarship project (ACP poster/ presentation or other written work)
• Develop a an either educational or clinical quality improvement project
• Deliver a Grand Rounds presentation in their senior year
• Present at Evidence-based Medicine Journal Club

Legacy faculty supervise the research design, implementation and outcomes for these projects. Our residents are frequently asked to present their projects at local, regional and national meetings. Examples of recent resident medical scholarship projects include the following:

• “I Can’t Breathe” A Case of Restricted Lung Disease & Pericardial Constriction in HIV Associated Lipodystrophy, 2005 Oregon ACP Presentation and National ACP Presentation, Philadelphia, Paula Muegge, M.D.
• Intracranial Epidural Abscess – 2005 Oregon ACP Presentation, Heidi Standteiner, M.D.
• Clostridium Septicum Sepsis with Neutropenic Enterocolitis - 2004 Oregon ACP Presentation, Drew Durbin, D.O.
• Vanishing Lung Syndrome – 2004 Oregon ACP Presentation, Anuj Garg, M.D.
• Is it Just Another Clot? – 2004 Oregon ACP Presentation, Andrew Chen, D.O.
• What a Bug! - 2003 Oregon ACP Presentation, Flora Fazeli, M.D.
• Asystole: A Common and Surprisingly Benign Finding in Vasovagal Syncope, 2003 Oregon ACP Presentation, Fawn Juvinall, M.D.
• Noncirrhotic Cause of Portal Hypertension - 2003 Oregon ACP Presentation, Tu Pham, M.D.
• Renal Transplant in the Morbidly Obese - 2003 Oregon ACP Presentation, Sudha Pidikiti, M.D.
• I've Fallen and Can't Get Up - 2003 Oregon ACP Presentation, Hamlet Benyamin, M.D.
• An Unusual Case of Weakness and Hoarseness - 2002 Oregon ACP Poster Presentation, Andreea Andone, M.D.
• Why Can't I Button My Pants - 2003 Oregon ACP Presentation, Joanna Bernstein, M.D.
• Visine Cannot get the Red Out- 2002 Oregon ACP Oral Presentation, Joanna Bernstein, M.D.
• Hemosiderosis in a Multiple Myeloma Patient - 2002 Oregon ACP Presentation, Joanna Bernstein, M.D.
• Menopause - An Evidence-Based Review of Non-HRT Treatments, Jessica Critchfield, M.D.
• Severe Headache in an Elderly Woman - The Heralding Sign of Pituitary Apoplexy - 2003 Oregon ACP and SGIM Presentation, Andrea Giblin, D.O.
• Celiac Sprue Presenting as Diffuse Bone Pain Without Gastrointestinal Symptoms - 2003 Oregon ACP Presentation and National ACP presentation, New Orleans, Robert Hoffman, M.D.