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My Experience at the 2019 Rheumatology Research Workshop: Opportunity to Meet Peers & Role Models

December 13, 2019 • By Jean Liew, MD

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Dr. Jean Liew talks with Delamo Bekele, MBBS, an instructor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

I had the opportunity to attend the Rheumatology Research Workshop in Washington, D.C., in June 2019. Held annually, this two-day meeting is run by the ACR Early Career Investigators (ECI) Subcommittee and is geared toward trainees at all levels (fellows, residents and medical students) and junior faculty with an interest in a rheumatology research career. The aim is to promote interaction and foster collaboration with established researchers. The meeting is much smaller and more intimate than the ACR/ARP Annual Meeting. I heard about this workshop during an ACR fellows-in-training (FIT) session and applied because I wanted to meet like-minded peers, as well as get advice from ECIs.

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2 Sets of Talks
On the first day of the workshop, two sets of talks occurred simultaneously: one for trainees and another for junior faculty and advanced fellows. The trainee talks included such topics as turning your analysis into a project, applying for grants and searching for your first faculty position. I attended a mix of these talks and found important messages in each.

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Some highlights:

  • Liana Fraenkel, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., gave the keynote lecture in which she wove lots of advice into a narrative about her career path. Some of her pearls of wisdom included “Beware of mentors who don’t ask you to revise a lot” and “Learn to say no.” The one that resonated the most with me is that rejection is a normal, expected part of the process—“the smartest people you know have gotten rejected”—and that we learn to be better researchers from it.
  • Maureen Dubreuil, MD, MSc, assistant professor of clinical epidemiology research and training at Boston University School of Medicine, spoke about preparing for a faculty position. She delved into the mythical “triple threat unicorn”—someone equally skilled at research, clinical care and teaching—and discussed realistic breakdowns of time (i.e., how to balance research [75%] with clinical care and teaching). She also discussed finding the balance between productivity that leads to funding and uncompensated work that may be gratifying. Teaching and giving talks may be fulfilling, but these activities don’t always come with financial compensation.
  • In a talk geared to junior faculty, Bryant England, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, spoke about the period following the receipt of grant funding, advising the creation of a roadmap for action items. First comes celebration, but he cautioned that we need to think about next steps and how to keep things moving forward. As someone still knee-deep in the grant-writing process, it was helpful to have that insight.

Interspersed with the talks were small group sessions. In the Specific Aims group, we discussed the conventional structure of this important part of the grant application, and also received directed advice from ECIs on how to inject specific details about the research and its potential to get the reviewers excited.

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Filed Under: Career Development, Professional Topics Tagged With: Career, Education, Rheumatology Research WorkshopIssue: January 2020

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