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)

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

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

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

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

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