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In this episode, Sarah Gander and Paul Atkinson talk about research, why it's important, and why it's sexy.

Resources:

www.cureus.com: An open access, peer reviewed research site (look for NB Social Pedatrics and Dalhousie Emergency Medicine)

www.medicine.da.ca: Dalhousie Medicine Research site

"RIM": Research in medicine

www.Impart.team/

"PICO format": PICO is a mnemonic used to describe the four elements of a good clinical foreground question: P = Population/Patient/Problem - How would I describe the problem or a group of patients similar to mine? I = Intervention - What main intervention, prognostic factor or exposure am I considering?

SHOC-ed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6561518/

Article mentioned published in Annals of Emergency Medicine: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196064418303251

Episode Guide:

0:05 Introduction

1:28 Open-access research

3:14 Why research is important

13:49 DMNB's research team

21:19 The most fun part about research

25:38 Challenging the elitism of research

30:45 The next step

37:18 Challenges in rural New Brunswick

40:27 Research accomplishments6