Journal article
Early Mentoring of Medical Students and Junior Doctors on a Path to Academic Cardiothoracic Surgery
TA Fricke, MGY Lee, J Brink, Y d'Udekem, CP Brizard, IE Konstantinov
Annals of Thoracic Surgery | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2018
Abstract
Background In 2005 the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Royal Children's Hospital started an early academic mentoring program for medical students and junior doctors with the aim of fostering an interest in academic surgery. Methods Between 2005 and 2015, 37 medical students and junior doctors participated in research in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Royal Children's Hospital. Each was given an initial project on which to obtain ethics approval, perform a literature review, data collection, statistical analysis, and prepare a manuscript for publication. A search of the names of these former students and doctors was conducted on PubMed to identify publications. Re..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Tyson Fricke is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Medical Research Postgraduate Scholarship and an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. Melissa Lee is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Medical Research Postgraduate Scholarship, a National Heart Foundation Health Professional Scholarship supported by the Noel and Imelda Foster Research Award, and an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. Yves d'Udekem is Practitioner Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.