Research Associates (RA) Program in Emergency Medicine
St. Vincent's Medical Center, Bridgeport CT
The Research Efforts of the RA Program
RAs have worked on a broad spectrum of clinical issues for patients coming
to the emergency department
  • Our RAs have enrolled more than 25,000 subjects in clinical studies,
    plus patients and visitors in service based on the research
          
    Click here to see the studies in which RAs have participated

  • Working from the seemingly paradoxical premise that the emergency
    department is an excellent place for primary health care, RAs have
    enrolled thousands of these subjects in studies on screening for:
  • domestic violence
  • firearms safety
  • cardiovascular risk assessment
  • American Cancer Society recommendations for
  • cervical cancer
  • breast cancer
  • prostate cancer
  • tobacco cessation