I have to disagree here...

There’s levels of research involvement

1. Being able to read papers, stay up to date, critique papers, and apply evidence to practice.

If you can’t do this to a reasonable (not great) level, you’re unlikely to be a great clinician.

1/4 https://twitter.com/vishnuvy/status/1286496041559154694

Level 2: involved in a research group. Recruit patients, collect data: smaller number of clinicians at this level. Must be encouraged and given credit.

This is frontline of clinical research!

2/4

Level 3: academic researchers: write protocol, apply for grant, collage data/results.
Much smaller numbers. But crucial

Head office/back office of research

Don’t have to be great clinicians. Need to be great researchers

3/4

There’s actually reasonable evidence that ICUs that recruit lots of patients to research trials have better outcomes - maybe just Hawthorne effect

We need lots of people on Levels 1 ; many at Level 2.

4/4

@AnantBhan @anupampom @vishnuvy

Great clinicians generally want to be involved in searching for new stuff that helps patients. But don’t want to spend too much time away from frontline

This structure plays to everyone’s strengths.