Of course, every region has a Faculty Research Advisor who might be able to help. Your trainer should know who this is.
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>Hi all
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>I am an Emergency Medicine SpR at a university hospital. In my region there is very little research activity. None of the regional consultants has a strong research portfolio.
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>Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get research going locally? Here are a few options that have been suggested:
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>Make publications mandatory for Registrars to progress through the training program
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>Divide the regional SpR cohort into small groups (say 4 SpRs per group), each group taking on a single research project
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>Forge links with academic units at the university so that projects can be supervised by researchers with experience
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>Become involved with research carried out by other more academic hospital departments
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>Personally I feel that placing the onus for research on Registrars will lead to non-sustainable poor quality projects. Without close supervision and experienced help we will never produce more than the usual scrappy retrospective “audit with no cycle”.
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>Regards
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>Chris Kirke
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