Hi
all
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.
Does
anyone have any suggestions for how to get research going locally? Here are a
few options that have been suggested:
Make
publications mandatory for Registrars to progress through the training
program
Divide
the regional SpR cohort into small groups (say 4 SpRs per group), each group
taking on a single research project
Forge
links with academic units at the university so that projects can be supervised
by researchers with experience
Become
involved with research carried out by other more academic hospital
departments
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”.
Regards
Chris
Kirke