Road to Excellent Research

15 Aug 2025 14:35 14:50
Yao-Chi Chuang Speaker

Medical research is what allows doctors to explore unmet medical need and decide how to best treat patients. It is what makes the development of new diagnostic tools, new biomarkers, new medicines, and new procedures. Without medical research, we would not be able to creative new knowledge and decide if new treatments are better than our current treatments. 

 

There are some Tips on what to do about what research is and how to get into it: 

  1. 1. Ask a good question from your daily practice, what is unmet medical need? 

  1. 2. Search the old literature of your research interests- what is known? What is unknown? 

  1. 3. Find a new method to solve your question or an old method but applying to a new field. 

  1. 4. Start from jointing a pre-planned research project, and join a research collaborative. 

  1. 5. Try to be an independent researcher from a small project without funding support, retrospective study. 

  1. 6. Try to get funding support from your institute, national grant, or industry. 

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As a young doctor, it’s important to look after yourself and maintain a healthy balance between daily practice and research work. There is a range of options for doctors interested in research, from smaller time commitments as a co-investigator to longer-term projects and experience as chief investigator. Research works are all optional activities, so do what you can but don’t overwhelm yourself.