Resources for Mentees, Mentors, and Researchers //
Mentoring in Surgery
JSCOR has compiled a list of resources and papers that we believe will help mentees and mentors benefit more from their relationship. Understanding the dynamics and factors at play is key to a successful and productive relationship.
1. Mentorship Program Pairs Public Health and Surgery to Improve Practice and Outcomes (2018)
2. Faculty-Student Mentoring Program to Enhance Collaboration in Public Health Research in Surgery (2017)
3. Men's Fear of Mentoring in the #MeToo Era - What's at Stake for Academic Medicine? (2018)
4. Nature's Guide for Mentors (2007)
6. Mentoring Millennials (2018)
7. Mentorship Malpractice (2016)
8. Mentoring Young Academic Surgeons (1999)
9. Short Guide for Mentees and Mentors (2017)
10. Coaching and Mentoring Modern Surgeons (2014)
11. Characteristics of Successful and Failed Mentoring Relationships: A Qualitative Study Across Two Academic Health Centers (2014)
How To Do Outcomes Research
Below are linked resources that have investigated successful ways do to outcomes research. Of note, this is not a complete list of resources but is a nice place to get started. More resources can be found on the linked articles.
2. A Checklist to Elevate the Science of Surgical Database Research
3. Guide to Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)
4. Guide to National Inpatient Sample (NIS)
5. Guide to National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB)
6. Guide to National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) & Pediatric NSQIP
8. Guide to National Cancer Database (NCBD)
9. Adherence to Methodological Standards in Research Using the National Inpatient Sample
11. Data Resource Profile: State Inpatient Database
How To Write a Paper
Below are linked resources that we have found to be helpful in the writing process for both students and people in all stages of their academic career.
1. Use of visual abstracts in communicating results
2. Scientific sinkhole: The pernicious price of formatting
3. A Surgery Trainee's Guide to Writing a Manuscript
4. Organising a manuscript reporting quality improvement or patient safety research.
5. How to select your confounding variables
Guide to Statistics and Medicine
JAMA released a series about statistics and medicine on January 29th, 2020. It is meant to help clinicians and researchers of all levels on a variety of topics. All of the articles can be found on the link below:
https://jamanetwork.com/collections/44042/guide-to-statistics-and-medicine