Key result
ScotRIGHT was established as the first pan-Scotland physician trainee research network in gastroenterology and hepatology to facilitate collaborative research and improve patient care.
Why the study?
Clinical trainees face challenges in accessing research skills, funding, and programmes through typical avenues, creating a need for alternatives beyond standard audit and quality improvement projects.
ScotRIGHT provides a framework for a pan-Scotland physician trainee research network to facilitate collaborative research, audit, and quality improvement in gastroenterology and hepatology.
Provides a scalable model for trainee research networks; leaves open effects on gastroenterology patient care.
Scotland has a distinguished track record in foundational clinical research. From the completion of the first clinical trial undertaken in scurvy to cloning the world's first whole mammal, Scottish basic and clinical research is world leading. More recently, challenges in access to research skills, funding and programmes by clinical trainees led to the development of alternatives to these typical avenues of accessing research opportunities. Trainee networks evolved to meet the needs of trainees looking to access projects and collaboratives beyond audit and quality improvement commonly performed during structured training. These networks have enjoyed enormous success and have succeeded in progressing projects which have impactful outputs for patients, and improving clinical services. Here, we describe the foundation of the first pan-Scotland physician trainee research network; Scottish Trainees Research In Gastroterology and Hepatology (ScotRIGHT). We outline the foundational efforts, requisites and foundations required to develop a research network.
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Moffat et al. (2023) studied this question. ScotRIGHT (Scottish Trainees Research in Gastroenterology and Hepatology) was evaluated. ScotRIGHT was established as the first pan-Scotland physician trainee research network in gastroenterology and hepatology to facilitate collaborative research and improve patient care.