Areas of Research

General Internal Medicine continues to foster growth and development of clinical research and quality improvement in the outpatient medical setting. Currently funded faculty research projects include:

• HIV vaccine clinical trials
• Smallpox vaccine
• Plague vaccine
• Communicating About Medical Errors
• Flu vaccine
• Quality of Geriatric Care in the Internal Medicine Residents’ Continuity of Care Clinic (ABIM Practice Improvement Model)
• Improving Use of Language Concordant Providers in Adult Primary Care Clinic (Resident QI Project)
• Geographic Cohorting of Clinic Preceptors and Residents to Decrease Patient Wait Time  (Resident QI Project)
• Decreasing Resident No Show Visits  (Resident QI Project)
• Decreasing Resident No Show Visits  (Resident QI Project)