NTRII

National Thoracic Research Improvement Initiative

Academic Division of Thoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, London UK

Exposure to medical research is essential in the training of surgeons and allied healthcare professionals. Whilst peer-reviewed publications from research is often expected of junior surgeons and allied healthcare professionals in surgery, there is often very little guidance on how to formulate a clinical question, design, conduct and delivery on how to answer the question posed.

The National Thoracic Research Improvement Initiative is forum designed to provide high quality research support through the guidance and personal support for thoracic surgeons and allied healthcare professionals in thoracic surgery who are leading on a research project.

The aim is to mentor and educate, ultimately improving the quality of research in thoracic surgery in the UK. Support for individual researchers and projects will be provided through a series of workshops co-Chaired by Professor Eric Lim (Royal Brompton Hospital, London) and Mr Paulo De Sousa (Royal Brompton Hospital, London). The weekly meetings will be planned by the organising secretary Dr Aina Pons (Royal Brompton Hospital, London) and open to thoracic surgeons (of all grades) and allied healthcare professional in thoracic surgery based in the UK.

Researchers will attend a weekly workshop (currently Mondays 09:00 via Microsoft Teams) and receive personal guidance on their research project through the lifecycle of the research from conception, delivery, write up to submission for publication.

Interested researchers, simply write to ntrii@rbht.nhs.uk to register for the programme (at no cost) and we look forward to seeing you on Mondays!