RRNeT - Residency Research Network of Texas

Becoming a Member

Requirements for becoming a new member of RRNeT:

  • An RRNeT Member Practice must be a Family Medicine residency program in Texas.
  • The Program Director must agree for the program to participate in RRNeT.
  • One or more faculty must represent their program on the RRNeT Steering Committee.
  • The representative's job will include attending RRNeT meetings (biannually), participating in conference calls (bimonthly), and coordinating IRB approval and data collection at his/her residency program for each project.
  • Member programs are expected to contribute research data to all RRNeT projects (about one or two per year).

Benefits to Residency Programs:

  • Research ideas initiated by residency program faculty or residents.
  • Links to other research-interested family physicians.
  • Collaboration with academic researchers.
  • Access to statisticians.
  • Hands-on research experience.
  • Opportunity to participate in research at all stages: idea generation, project development, data collection, interpretation of findings, presentations at national professional conferences, writing journal articles.
  • Structured activities for required resident projects.
  • Portfolio of published research.
  • Findings to inform clinical work and teaching.
INTERESTED? Want to find out more?

Contact: Sandra K. Burge, Ph.D., phone 210.358.3885