For all residents PGY2-7, a mandatory requirement for scholarship activity is defined as at least one publication-ready paper per year. The papers may take the form of a case report, book chapter, original clinical or basic science paper, review, or meta-analysis.

Residents may participate in a faculty member's research project, or the faculty member will assist the resident in finding an appropriate project at Emory. Residents meet with members of the research committee early in their training to begin planning research projects so they may enter the laboratory with a well-developed and funded project. Fully equipped vivisection, histology, electron microscopy, autoradiography, experimental cerebral blood flow facilities and molecular biological facilities are available.

Some of our research involves primates, housed and supported through the auspices of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, an affiliate institution of Emory University. Residents may attend the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Neuropathology Course held in Bethesda, Maryland, and the Review and Update in Neurobiology Course at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Additionally, residents learn to write scientific manuscripts and are strongly encouraged to present their papers at national meetings.