1. Research Question: state it
Resident Name, PGY, Mentor: Name

2. Background (or why did you ask the question)
Identify at least 2 current manuscripts that lead to your question
Identify knowledge gap or need for replication of current research (perform PubMed search to find out if there is an answer already)
Background (or why did you ask the question)

3. State your hypothesis
State your null hypothesis
Identify aims of your research
Hypothesis and Aims

4. How are you going to go about to answer your question?
Methods

5. Expected or Real (if you have them already)
Results

6. Limitations Limitations in study design or in sample size
Barriers of the current project
Limitations

7. Future directions (for Expected Results) or Conclusions (for Real Results)
Summary