Graduate Medical Education Research has always been an important component of the medical arts. Indeed, most recent advances in medicine have come about through the systematic application of the methods of science in the western tradition, e.g., research design, measurement theory, statistical inference, etc.

In connection with the ascendancy of managed care, the concomitant rise of quality improvement and outcomes research, as well as the recent vogue in "evidence-based" medicine, physicians and physicians-in-training require a greater understanding of the methods of science to function optimally in clinical settings.

The Graduate Medical Education program at the Jersey City Medical Center is designed to provide medical students, residents and attending physicians and surgeons with the knowledge needed to critically assess the value of empirical health and medical research for their clinical practice. Moreover, they should enhance the ability of participants to formulate focused, meaningful, and feasible research questions, and testable hypotheses. Using monthly lectures and journal clubs, participants are educated in the fundamentals of statistical inference in the frequentist tradition, probability sampling, measurement, experimental and quasi-experimental research design, interpretation of diagnostic tests, and concepts in clinical and observational epidemiology.

Special topics lectures/seminars are also conducted on an eclectic mix of subjects including contingency tables analysis using x2, meta-analysis as a tool in research synthesis, quality improvement and outcomes research, and health care policy in the United States. Lectures and journal clubs are augmented by one to one instruction and consultation with the Director of Research for GME.