Here’s the problem you face:
You are reading a ton of research articles throughout your career.
You are following evidence-based guidelines to the T.
You want you be an opinion leader and not just a follower in your field.
You want in on a part of the action.
But you simply have no idea where to start your research career.
Am I even qualified?
You don’t feel like you have the qualifications to ask questions.
Especially in a field where we wear our year of graduation as a badge of honor.
The older you are, the more qualified you are.
Absurd, you know, but it has got you thinking:
You think you need to wait 30 more years before becoming an associate consultant to do so.
You think you need to take a year-long sabbatical from your 9-5 clinical duties to do so.
You think you need to move your practice to a university hospital to do so.
When all the above have been achieved, that’s when you feel like you are just about qualified to know the right questions to ask.
Which means that you’ll never have the opportunity to create the impact in your field that you know you are capable of making.
It doesn’t have to be like that.
Because the Weekend Research Question Framework is going to provide you with a system that you can follow.
To help you see what’s ahead.
To clear up the fog and fear surrounding how people even enter this field.
Because more often than not, when people know the next few steps that they should take, nothing more and nothing less, their sense of helplessness around the matter falls apart on its own.
Now imagine this…
- What if you knew which subspecialty / disease / procedure you wanted to research on?
- What if you understood which specific aspect of the topic was going to get people to notice you and pay attention to what you have to say?
- What if you figured out the way to frame your question so that it is geared for success?
- What if you could find out the answers to the above questions in one sitting over 1 weekend?
- What if you already have the expertise to capture these research questions without being a 30-year veteran in the field?
I’ve been there.
I was just like you when I started my part-time research career.
No experience.
No time.
No skills.
No connections in academia.
And I’ve found my research question within 3 months of starting my neurology residency.
Start now, because you never know how far you can go.
Now, a research question is just the beginning of an exciting research career as a clinician-scientist though.
Let’s not get stuck on just identifying it.
I published my first scientific poster addressing that research question at the Asia Pacific Stroke Conference 2023 (organized specifically for neurologists subspecializing in stroke management) within the same 3 months.
While working full-time at a non-university tertiary hospital.
And that has propelled me to prepare for a full-fledged journal article on the same topic because it was a question that people noticed and paid attention to.
The Weekend Research Question Framework.
Asking a question within the medical community and addressing it through research seems to be very hard.
Sometimes people get credit for large, randomized controlled, landmark studies with thousands of subjects.
But we don’t want you to perform large, randomized controlled, landmark studies with thousands of subjects.
Wait, what?
We want you to find the right research question that can be addressed with the right type of study design suiting your time and expertise while creating impact because the right people within your field are faced with the same clinical problems and crave their itch to be scratched.
And that’s where things can get a little tricky.
With the Weekend Research Question Framework, you’re going to learn:
- The concept of audience-building in research success.
- The types of research questions that will set you up for success.
- The approach to capturing your research question in your daily work.
- The framing of the research question to ensure feasibility.
- The next concrete action to take on your research question to make it a reality.
You can wait out on this, but…
You can continue to go through your routine daily hum without questioning, facing the same hiccups in tough clinical decisions, wondering if you are even qualified to dig into these research projects, and giving up on a fulfilling career in which you can make a real impact in the lives of many patients.
This may sound like an exaggeration, but I truly believe this: medical progress has slowed just that much without you trying to answer the difficult questions you face publicly through research.
Or, you can go through the Weekend Research Question Framework, have a systematic plan to capture the questions in your professional practice, and be confident you are addressing the right questions that will get your audience to notice you because you’ve got the specific information that they need.
Once you have the right question that people want the answer to, the recognition for your work will come: research posters, journal publications, multicenter collaborations, and h-indexes.
All in 3 simple steps:
- Find your audience: know who specifically you are talking to with your research question.
- Capture the right questions: gain inspiration from the clinical encounters you’re facing every day as a clinician.
- Frame your question the right way: set constructive constraints on your research question so that the odds are stacked for your success
Don’t let them hold you back.
People want you to believe that you need 2 decades of clinical experience under your belt along with an honorary professor appointment, a second degree in biostatistics, several 1 million-dollar grants, and an unoccupied 9-5 workweek before you can even think about dabbling in medical research.
I don’t even know whether the last sentence is logical at the most fundamental level.
But throw in the looming hierarchical structure of the medical community and you’ve got no business daydreaming about pushing the frontiers of science as a first-year resident trainee.
It’s not necessarily true, though.
If you are looking into research questions that your audience wants, they are going to notice you and they are going to pay attention to you.
And you can do that as a first-year resident trainee.
Because there is no need to overcomplicate things.
Doing impactful research does not have to be complicated.
I’m not saying that it will be easy.
However, it can be simple.
It’s simply talking to your audience about the things that they WANT to hear about.
Then it’s consistency and improving your skills in capturing the right questions.
This guide has that covered for you.
This isn’t the shortcut you’re looking for.
Here’s what this guide is not going to be, however.
If you’re expecting thesis writing services and write-my-dissertation or any of that spoon-feed academic cheating, this is not the place for you.
I mean it.
Go look somewhere else.
Those tactics won’t work and in fact they will backfire on you.
This guide is for those who are ready to put in the hard work and hard thinking, above and beyond their routine day-to-day clinical workload.
What’s in it for you?
There’s something magical that happens when you are able to identify the right research question.
You end up with people who look forward to your research outputs.
They comment and want to know more. They ask questions. They want advice. They want to know how you got your results. They give suggestions. They wish to collaborate on future projects.
When you have a publication for them that is going to help them solve the problems that they are facing, they will happily reference what you have written and circulate the knowledge to others within their circles and ask whether you’ve got more.
My colleague has asked whether I’d like to collaborate and publish a journal article based on the findings in my poster presentation at the recent Asia Pacific Stroke Conference 2023.
Imagine now that you’re in my shoes, publishing the journal article in 6 months, getting more feedback from your subspecialty community, looking into bigger research questions and collaborations, and breaking into academia or even the biotech startup scene with the discoveries you’ve made.
That’s probably a 10-20 journey and that’s how far you can go with the right research question.
Why now?
I can’t guarantee that everyone will find their “perfect” research question by the end of the weekend.
But I can guarantee that everyone will grow as a clinical researcher.
Every person, over 2 days, will be more empowered to capture and refine their research question than they do today.
You can join us in the Weekend Research Question Framework and kickstart your research career, or stay on the sidelines and continue to be a follower of the opinions of others.
14-day money-back guarantee.
You know what?
I sincerely want you to find the next step in your research career.
So I want to lend you a helping hand and make this decision even easier for you.
Which is why I will offer you a 14-day money-back guarantee if you can show that you’ve put in the hard work, stuck to the guide, and still not gotten the outcome that you want to see.
That’s 2 weekends in total.