Facilitation of resident scholarly activity: strategy and outcome analyses using historical resident cohorts and a rank-to-match population.

Background: Facilitation of residents' scholarly activities is indispensable to the future of medical specialties. Research education initiatives and their outcomes, however, have rarely been reported.

Methods: Since academic year 2006, research education initiatives, including research lectures, research problem-based learning discussions, and an elective research rotation under a new research director's supervision, have been used.

Use of a problem-based learning discussion format to teach anesthesiology residents research fundamentals.

Study Objective: To present a new research problem-based learning discussion (PBLD) conference and to evaluate its effect on residents.

Design: Retrospective observational study of resident education before and after implementation of a research PBLD.

Setting: Large U.