Creating a Home for Timing Researchers: Then, Now, and the Future.

Our ability to perceive event duration and order is critical in every aspect of our lives, from everyday tasks like coordinating our limbs to walk safely, to uniquely human activities like planning our children's future. Many theoretical accounts of timing have been proposed to explain the mechanisms underlying our ability to estimate time and unify events in time. Continuous progress is being met in further refining and extending current theories, with the aim not only to advance our understanding of timing and time perception, but also to make timing more accessible and applicable to daily life. For this to be possible, cross-disciplinary thinking is required, which is something one cannot easily attain in a scientific conference, rather it requires a community. Having a community with an interest and/or expertise in timing can allow for cross-fertilization of ideas. This chapter introduced the story of the Timing Research Forum or else TRF.

Peer review journal publication rates of award-winning presentations from a multi-disciplinary multi-institutional medical education consortium annual research forum: 40-year experience.

INTRODUCTION: Resident research has been mandated by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education across all specialties. Southeast Michigan Center for Medical Education (SEMCME) has an annual Research Forum for resident competition, and we assessed the publication status of award-winning presentations. METHODS: The SEMCME Research Forum's winning presentations from 1978 to 2018 were reviewed. The author's information and keywords from the abstract's title were used to search PubMed and Google Scholar databases for publications. Descriptive statistics were generally used to characterize the data. RESULTS: Of 147 winning projects, 62% (78/126) were oral and 48% (10/21) were poster presentations; 88 (60%) were published. Obstetrics and gynecology had the highest publication rate (71%), followed by surgical (61%) and medical specialties (48%). CONCLUSION: While 60% of the award-winning presentations at the SEMCME Research Forum were published, more work needs to be done to examine the barriers preventing the publication of the remaining projects.

Learning to SuRRF: Sustained Engagement and Increased Academic Productivity Over Two Years of a Resident-Led Virtual Laboratory.

OBJECTIVE: To determine if implementation of a resident-led virtual laboratory can sustain increased engagement and academic productivity in residents and faculty. DESIGN: We developed and introduced a multimodal virtual Surgery Resident Research Forum (SuRRF) in July 2019. SuRRF utilizes monthly virtual lab meetings, weekly newsletters, a centralized database of projects, project tracking tools, and a shared calendar of deadlines to facilitate research among surgical residents. Data on number of participating residents, faculty, and projects across SuRRF meetings at 1-year (7/2020) and 2-years post-implementation (9/2021) were collected to evaluate engagement. Institutional ACGME Resident Scholarly Activity and Faculty Scholarly Activity reports were evaluated for the pre-SuRRF implementation (2018-2019) and post-implementation (2020-2021) academic years to assess productivity pre- and post-implementation. SETTING: Three tertiary academic hospitals of a single health system in New York. PARTICIPANTS: All residents in our general surgery program during the study period, including research residents, were eligible to participate in our study. RESULTS: At 1-year, there were 2 attendings, 13 residents, and 23 projects, compared to 12 attendings, 25 residents, and 42 projects at 2-years post-implementation. Post-SuRRF implementation, residents had significantly more publications (0.56 ± 0.15 vs. 1.10 ± 0.15, p = 0.005), textbook chapters (0.00 vs. 0.010 ± 0.044, p = 0.014), research participation (p < 0.01), and scholarly activity (p = 0.02). Post-SuRRF, faculty had significantly more publications (0.74 ± 0.15 vs. 2.20 ± 0.33, p < 0.001) and scholarly activity (p = 0.006). CONCLUSIONS: SuRRF promotes exposure to projects and resources and increases collaboration and peer-to-peer mentorship. Our experience with SuRRF suggests that resident-led virtual laboratories may increase peer-reviewed publications and improve resident and faculty engagement in scholarly activity, thus supporting academic growth.

Abstracts from the Seventh Annual Baylor University Medical Center Medical Education Research Forum 2021.

The Baylor University Medical Center Department of Medical Education hosted its seventh annual Medical Education Research Forum on April 21, 2021, to showcase the research efforts of its medical students, residents, and fellows. Thirty-six posters were shared and 18 oral presentations were given. Here we present 17 award-winning abstracts.

Diving Under the SuRRFace: Achieving More Than Just Compliance with ACGME Scholarly Activity Mandate.

OBJECTIVE: To determine if building a digital technology supported infrastructure improves general surgery residents' confidence to conduct clinical research. DESIGN: We developed and introduced a multimodal virtual Surgery Resident Research Forum (SuRRF) in July 2019. An anonymized survey asked residents to rate their confidence using a five-point Likert scale in various fields pre- and post-intervention. Fields included: finding a research mentor, developing a project, conducting research, performing an effective literature search, navigating internal and external resources, and ability to complete a research project. SETTING: Northwell Health - North Shore University Hospital / Long Island Jewish Medical Center: academic tertiary care centers. PARTICIPANTS: All 58 residents in our general surgery program, including research residents, were eligible to participate in our study. RESULTS: Survey response rate was 55% (28 clinical residents, 4 research fellows). Post-implementation of SuRRF, all respondents (PGY1-5) reported an increase in awareness of abstract/conferences submission deadlines (2.34 ± 1.1 pre- vs. 3.75 ± 1.1 post-implementation, p = 0.004) and ability to navigate institutional electronic medical information library resources (2.2 ± 1.0 pre- vs. 3.62 ± 1.2 post-implementation, p = 0.000). Junior residents (PGY1-3) had improvement in all areas except for finding a mentor and improving their confidence with literature review. CONCLUSIONS: Creation of a resident-led virtual laboratory infrastructure increases participation, improves perception of research abilities, and improves attitudes towards performing clinical research among general surgery residents. Future research will follow the impact of this virtual laboratory on publications and grants.

Melioidosis in Gujarat: a neglected tropical disease.

We report what we believe is the first case in Gujarat of melioidosis in a 67-year-old man. Awareness of this disease is limited, especially in areas supposed not to be endemic.