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👩🔬 How do I get research experience as a medical student? Where to start & how to finish (with a publication or prize!) Jessica O’LogbonMy journey so far Master’s student at Cambridge (intercalation) AAAA Physics, Chemistry, NHS Healthcare Biology, Maths assistant Global Pre-Meds Medicine at Gap year applicant Make a Difference experience in King’s College Award Dominican Republic LondonCritical appraisal 🧐 Carefully assessing scientific research papers to judge their trustworthiness, value, and relevance in a particular context. Is it ‘CRAAP’? • Currency – when was the information published? • Relevance – How important is the information to your study’s objectives? • Authority – who is the author and what are their credentials? Was the article published in a peer-reviewed journal? • Accuracy – How reliable is the information? Does it lack citations or are they inaccurate? • Purpose – Is it a well-balanced independent piece of research or intended to sell a product or idea (conflict of interest)?Essay competitions 📝 essay competition, offered by most of the Royal Colleges and by many charities (follow @roysocmedstudents) It is worth searching for different essay prizes, having a look at subject that piques your interest.able, and writing about a Blog post on essay competitions: ost/essay-competitionsthjess.co.uk/pStructuring 📝 your essay Paraphrasing 📝 Know your objective Read around the topic Identify key words and phrases •You will usually find a •To inform paragraph you want to •What main idea are you •To support/ argue paraphrase but may not trying to get across? •To emphasise understand it fully. Read •Draw out these important To critique the paragraphs before and points and write them in after and any works my own words. referenced. •Write down what you’ve understood, You can use this as an outline for your final piece. Certificate of Award Presented to Take advantage Jessica O'Logbon Winner of Student Essay Prize 2020 How should adolescent health services change by 2040 to better accommodate young people? of opportunities YPHSIG convenor Forget the accolades! These will come! FIND WHAT YOU’RE PASSIONATE This is to certify that ABOUT AND GOOD AT! Jessica O’Logbon This is to certify that is the winner of the GKT School of Medical Education’s Jessica O’Logbon EdgcumbePrizeFund was jointly awarded the Awarded to the student achieving the highest SSC mark Jessica O'Logbon TheNicolaClaireHoodMemorialPrize 2019/20 Annals of Medicine and Surgery for outstanding achievement in the Stage 2 Year 2 Student Selected Component Module Principal's Global Leadership Award (Undergraduate) "What can surgery learn from other high-performance disciplines?" DeanofMedicalEducationr Authored by: June 2020 Jessica O'Logbon PDeanofMedicalEducation Published in: Volume 55C, 2020, Pages 334-337Where can I find opportunities? ⁉ • Societies • Conferences (even if you’re not presenting anything, go for the networking opportunity!) • Social media • Progress with Jess website (career building section) • Your curriculum – SSC, Scholarly ProjectAcademic posters 🖼 • To present an academic poster, you need to submit an abstract to a conference that suits the theme of your work An abstract is a short summary of your research paper, usually about 150-250 words long. A well-written abstract will: • let readers get an idea of what your paper is about so they can decide whether to read the full paper; • paper;es readers to follow the detailed information, analyses, and arguments in your full • helps readers remember key points from your paper.Academic posters 🖼 • poTitle – No more than two lines, should be catchy and encourage people to read your poster • Introduction – Short background about your topic to provide the reader with context: aim to answer 'why is your research important?' • Methods – Describe what you did, images can be useful to enhance this section. • Results – Your results - graphs and charts can be useful here • Conclusions – What did your research show?, what is its relevance?, what future research needs to be done? • References – Approximately 5 references using appropriate citation style • poster can be downloadedur contact details and if possible, where your CREATING AN ACADEMIC POSTER (2) introduction Very brief introduction. Decided not to include references because this is information that is quite well-known. tip 1 Space is very limited on posters so you must pick what you think is tip 2 important enough to be Focus on included. You making your should not be poster as penalised for visually appealing as not including possible and any references that everything in your poster. on it is relevant and suitable for Quantitative the conference data and its theme. Think about what's going to be the most interesting for the audience to know. Extras figures / tables Leave some space on your poster for extras Tables can be harder to read so for in-person conferences, you might to required by the opt for graphics / figures instead. When submitting an abstract for quite conference organisers a large piece of work (like my thesis), pick out the results that are most (e.g. ethics approval, relevant to the conference. E.g. This was presented at the Royal College conflict of interest of Paediatrics and Child Health conference so I decided to include statement, abbreviations). graphics that focused on results that were most relevant to children. The publication timeline 🕰 3-5 months - PEER REVIEW After submission, each manuscript is checked for plagiarism, and assessed carefully to determine if it fits the aims and scope of the journal. If journal representatives are enthusiastic about the work, the journal editor will appoint ~1 month – NEW reviewers to read through it and critique it. DECISION 3-6 months ~1 month - 1-2 months – Writing up your DECISION You will be provided with the peer MORE REVISIONS manuscript, cover letter reviewers comments and will be AND and submitting to a expected to work through them one RESUBMISSIONS journal by one and answer to them.Journal submission checklist 🗞 q Decide what type of article your work is q Choose a journal q Read the author guidelines and format your manuscript q Write a cover letter (templates can be found online) q Register for an author account and submit! q Do not fear failure or be put off my rejections – persevere! Don’t rush! And SEEK HELP FROM SUPERVISORS!T ake home messages ü Spend time seeking out opportunities to find out more about yourself! ü Keep open minded and be engaged in opportunities that come your way. ü Share your achievements (LinkedIn, social media can widen your surface area to opportunities and networking). ü Do not fear failure. ü You don’t always need to reinvent the wheel – ALWAYS SEEK HELP IF YOU CAN. Thank Y ou! Q&A Demystified: Scientific Writing jess.olo jess.0lo https://progresswithjess.co.uk/shop