Getting started with medical research? What future doctors must know - American Medical Association

For aesculapian students and residents, conducting probe offers an accidental to marque a large impact. Getting started, however, tin beryllium 1 of the much daunting aspects of pursuing a probe project.

For students funny successful the probe conducted by their peers, the AMA Research Challenge poster symposium and semifinals instrumentality spot virtually Oct. 20–22. The event, which is escaped to attend, offers the accidental to research probe successful a assortment of topics and specialties, supply proposal and feedback. AMA members tin besides people posters to assistance determine the 5 finalists competing for a $10,000 expansive prize that volition beryllium determined successful December.

Three physicians with extended probe acquisition offered cardinal points connected however to get started arsenic a doc researcher.

Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc, is vice dean of diverseness and inclusion astatine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Having done probe and judged past AMA Research Challenge events, helium said that, inevitably, inferior researchers volition marque missteps. Learning from them is portion of the process.

“This is the clip successful your maturation arsenic an researcher erstwhile you privation to neglect and neglect often,” said Dr. Yancy, an AMA member. “And that seems counterintuitive, but you truly privation to cognize however bash you regroup? How bash you rebound? How bash you recalibrate? How bash you refocus? How bash you larn from past experiences? You tin rejoice your wins but you larn from your losses.”

Sanjay Desai, MD, is the AMA’s main world serviceman and radical vice president of aesculapian education. He volition justice the AMA Research Challenge finals, which instrumentality spot successful December.

“It’s astir apt intimidating for immoderate that haven’t spent arsenic overmuch clip earlier aesculapian schoolhouse to pursue” research, Dr. Desai said. “But I would say: Everyone, this is your accidental to larn much astir it and to truly get meaningful experiences. And the astir important happening is to question retired mentors. Medical schools person nary shortage of probe mentors that you could speech with and larn from and hopefully prosecute with successful a mode that would beforehand probe and science.”

Ricardo Correa, MD, is an AMA subordinate and an advisory subordinate for the AMA Research Challenge. Having conducted probe for a bully chunk of his career, Dr. Correa has recovered that pursuing your passions tends to output results.

“Do not fto anyone destruct that passion, destruct that extremity successful your career. There volition not beryllium a consecutive enactment to execute probe successful academia, determination volition beryllium immoderate curves but the extremity astatine the extremity is the same. The extremity is that you privation to go a physician-scientist, that you privation to nutrient research, that you privation to alteration the world,” Dr. Correa said. “So, proceed with your imagination ... past find persons who tin usher you.”