Scholarly Works Virtual Summit

Resident Scholarly Works Virtual Summit

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - Presentations all day long!  

Illinois Family Medicine Residents and Fellows are invited to compete in a statewide, online forum – no travel required!

**Residents who are not presenting are welcome to login on to observe the presentations! All members will be invited to log in and observe presentations.  CME credit will be offered. Consider live-streaming the virtual summit at your program so that residents and faculty can stop by and view at any time during their day!

Research may be completed or in-progress. We will have separate categories for each.  The top scoring presentation in each category will win an Amazon gift card (delivered electronically)

• In order to be considered a Completed Project, your presentation should contain the following: background on your topic, a clinical question and hypothesis, discussion of methodology and/or intervention and discussion of results. Educational projects completed would have Background, educational aim needs assessment (both general lit review and targeted needs assessment), learner objectives, discussion of format methods, description of the curriculum and discussion of the evaluation results.
• Research in Progress presentations do not need to have final analysis or results.  However, the participant should be able to discuss the other components of the project and the plan for the rest of the project. Educational projects in progress need to have a needs assessment (at least a general lit review and a targeted needs assessment), learner objectives and discussion of format methods done or planned, description of the curriculum and planned evaluation methods if not yet completed.

Presentations are limited to a maximum 15 minutes and a maximum of 25 slides. (can be shorter). 

Presentation time slots will be sent to the LEAD presenter only the week of May 5. The lead presenter must reply to accept that slot or request a different time, if needed and also inform all co-presenters directly. 

All presentations (PowerPoint or Google slides) and head shot photos must be submitted by May 15 for review or you will not be allowed to present. You may update your presentation for May 21 if you need to.

Apply Now! Deadline is April 30

Live Presentations

Presenting residents will login to the virtual summit (held via Zoom) and present live to a panel of anonymous reviewers as well as any resident or faculty that may login and observe. If you miss your scheduled start time, there will not be another opportunity to present.
Residents must be at your computer with the presentation slides open and ready on your desktop. If you are using your computer microphone, please use a headset (to keep out surrounding background noise)  and be ready to Share Your Screen. 
Moderator introduces the researcher and notifies the resident to start the presentation. Resident presenters advance their own slides from their computers.

We will offer an open practice time on the day before the webinar (Tuesday, May 20), for presenters who wish to test out their connection to the platform from their computer in advance and practice screen sharing. 
Residents have up to 15 minutes to deliver the entire presentation. Presenters are limited to a maximum of 25 slides. There is a 2-minute warning to help presenters in ending on time. After the presentation, a 3-minute question and answer session follow with questions from two anonymous faculty reviewers.

Presenters in the 15-minute presentations are scored on

1. the quality of their research design Note for educational project design-clear learner objectives, sound data for general and/or targeted needs assessments, curriculum design description, documented or planned evaluation strategies.
2. the quality of their slides
3. the relevance to family medicine,
4. their verbal presentation and
5. their responses to questions.  For an in-progress educational project- a demonstrated commitment to the project. Is this educational effort currently on track for meaningful educational outcomes that will benefit clinical learners in family medicine?

Questions may be directed to Ginnie Flynn 773-754-1185 or gflynn@iafp.com.

Resident Scholarly Works Virtual Summit History

2023 TOP SCORING PRESENTATIONS

Completed Project:
Rebekka DePew, MD, West Suburban Family Medicine 
Naloxone Distribution at Hospital Discharge: Implementation and Outcomes 

Research in Progress:
Alexis Acernese, MD and Alex Wang,  MD - Rush Copley Medical Center
Engaging Residents through Special Olympics: A Collaborative Curriculum on the Care of Athletes with Intellectual Disabilities View Slides

The 2022 Summit Top Score in each category

Research In-Progress:
Auditi Kundu, MD - AMITA St Mary and Elizabeth Hospital 
Co-Presenter Khrystyna Savchuk 
Comparing Closed vs Open ICU staffing model outcomes of Family Medicine Patients in a community hospital

Completed Project: 
Ari Epstein, DO - Northwestern McGaw: Delnor Hospital 
The Effect of a Novel Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine Protocol on both ED Length of Stay for Patients with Moderate to Severe Opioid Use Disorder and ED Staff Wellness

2021 Resident Scholarly Works Virtual Summit 

Research in Progress
Marcela Hinojosa Soria, MD,  AMITA Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center
Co-Presenters Danique Lippens & Sara Luczkiewicz
Retrospective Analysis of Postpartum Visits of SMEMC Family Medicine Residency Program (View Slides)

Completed Project (Tie for top score!)
Vivian Harvey, MD, Loyola MacNeal Family Medicine Residency
Co-Presenter: Madeline Knott, MD
Multidisciplinary Medication Reconciliation: A Collaboration Between Medical Residents and Pharmacy Team in a Family Medicine Outpatient Center 

Audrey Hertenstein Perez, MD, West Suburban Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program
Co-Presenters Elizabeth Ramirez, MD; Nathan Lin, MD
Identifying Providers’ Perceived Knowledge, Ability, and Practices around Providing Care for Undocumented Immigrant Patients in an Urban Federally Qualified Health Center Clinic Setting

2020 IAFP Resident Scholarly Works Virtual Summit Results

Research in Progress: From Chaos to Coordination: Strategies for Implementing a Residency Team-based Complexity Care Model
Kevin Volkema, DO - Northwestern McGaw Family Medicine Residency at Humboldt Park
Co-Presenter Wesley Gibbert, MD,MPH

Completed Project: Health Benefits of participating in the Healthy Harvest Food Box program for a Food Insecure Population
Nicholas Katcher, MD - Hinsdale Family Medicine Residency
Co-Presenter Russell Stephensen, D

2019 Resident Scholarly Works Virtual Summit Results

Completed Project
Efficacy of Current Interventions for Improving Follow-up Rate after Abnormal Pap Smear
Caitlin Canton, DO - Loyola MacNeal Family Medicine Residency Program

In-Progress Research
A Retrospective Study: Assessing Compliance of 2014 AAP Bronchiolitis Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Bronchiolitis in Four Community Hospitals
Emanuela Kulach, DO and Uzma Kothawala, MD - AMITA Hinsdale Family Medicine Residenc

2018 Virtual Summit
TOP SCORE  Completed Project:  Fakhrudin Aaseemah Mohamed, MD and Jason Kushner, MD, MS - Jackson Park Hospital Family Medicine Residency
Identifying the Co-morbid Conditions Affecting Hemoglobin A1c levels of diabetics in an African American Population.

 TOP SCORE Research in Progress:  Linh Hoang, DO and Ruheena Khan, DO- Swedish Covenant Hospital Family Medicine Residency

Use and interest in Integrative Medicine among primary care patients at a community hospital - A Needs Assessment

2017 Resident Scholarly Works Virtual Summit - Results. 

Completed Project
May Soliz, MD
University of Chicago (NorthShore)
Transitions of Care Curriculum: Helping Family Medicine physicians learn the best fit post-acute care setting for patients' needs.  

Research in Progress
Mike Walker, MD and Jiyeon Jeon, MD
Northwestern McGaw at Humboldt Park
Pre-Diabetes: Clinically Meaningful Interventions Based on Chart Review

2016 Results:

Top scoring presentation:

Lindsay Martin-Engel, MD MPH and Jacqueline Allen, MD - West Suburban Family Medicine Residency Program
Presentation Title: Improving Provider Readiness to Manage Intimate Partner Violence in Family Medicine Resident Continuity Clinics in Chicago

Kathrine Duffy, MD - Northwestern McGaw Family Medicine Residency Program at Humboldt Park 
Presentation Title: LGBTQ Youth: The Journey to Homelessness and Potential Role for Primary Care Intervention

Category: Research in-progress

Judith Disterhoft, MD - West Suburban Family Medicine Residency Program
Presentation Title: One Key Question: Preventative Reproductive Health
Research in-progress

2015 Top Scoring Resident Research Presentations:

Completed Project:  Javier Guevara, MD  
Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center
Impact of an EHR Smart Phrase and Resident Education on Adherence to ADA Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes
Co-Presenters: Kajal Patel MD, Corina Marshall MD, Julia Gold MD, Daniel Hanley MD

Research In-Progress: Charity Lehn, MD
McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency
Implementation of a Model to Empower Family Medicine Patients to Achieve  Institute of Medicine Gestational  Weight Gain Recommendations