This workshop was based on my career and lessons for medical students on how to maximise the impact of their academic work, for their patients and their careers.

1. How to Build Your
Research Reputation
Dr Jake Matthews
March 2024 BWAMS

2. Learning Outcomes
● Intro and career
● Basics of presentation, publication and dissemination
● Top 10 Tips
● Resources
● Q+A

3. Top 10 Tips
1. Know yourself
2. Know your goals
3. Join a team
4. Do something you enjoy
5. Do good work
6. Publish
7. Build your own
8. KISS
9. Link it
10.Share it widely

4. Why do we write and Publish?
● "Research isn't research until it's written down" - Anon
● Persuade someone that the conclusions from your research are
correct – remember research is an argument
● Writing is thinking
● Writing for career progression – building your CV
● Writing to improve patient care and knowledge exchange
● Can you publish too much?
Slide adapted from Prof Anne Topping (Mixed Methods Module)

5. The Publication Pyramid
● Local presentation – poster or oral or teaching
● Blog +/- Podcast +/- Video
● Regional presentation – Oral > poster
● Regional presentation – Plenary speech
● National presentation – Oral > poster
● International presentation - Oral > poster
● PubMed cited, peer-reviewed journal letter
● PubMed cited, peer-reviewed journal primary article
● PubMed cited, peer-reviewed journal systematic review
● PubMed cited, peer-reviewed journal, open-access article
● Book chapter
● Book
● National Guideline
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of
Clinicians
Average Excellent
Negligent
No
of
Patients
AveragePerfect Health
Very unwell

6. How to start writing
● Don’t set aside large amounts of time
● Read the guidelines
● Set targets and count words
● Do not get stuck – do the next section
● Write the headings in first
● Bullet points, stream of consciousness
● Do not worry too much about what you
are writing
● Create a file and headings
● Seek critical review
● Treat rejection as the beginning of the
next submission
● Best training for writing is ………..
● Read, Read, Read,
● Prepare (read)
● Plan (read) Practice (Read)
● Think, think, think,
● And then …….
● Write about what you read and thought
and write, write, write
Slide adapted from Prof Anne Topping (Mixed Methods Module)

7. Slide adapted from Prof Anne Topping (Mixed Methods Module)

8. 1 Know Yourself
● SWOT analysis
● Personality type - many types
https://themindsjournal.com/myers-briggs-personality-types/

9. My Career
Year Grade Projects / Interests / Extra-curricular
<2009 Blackwood Comprehensive (S. Wales)
2009 Birmingham MS1
2010 MS2 Weight loss, bariatrics
2011 BMedSc Spinal trauma
2012 MS3 Bariatrics HEFT, BMA
2013 MS4 WMRC, Gen Surg Methods, FMLM, BMLS,
2014 MS5 (MBChB) Scoliosis, BMLS, STARSurg
2015 FY1 (UHB – QEH) T+O Op notes, RIFT, QIP, IT, Coding
2016 FY2 RIFT
2017 FY3 (DMCC, ILM) RIFT
2018 FY4 Coding, Malaria
2019 FY5 Public Health, Back pain,
2020 FY6 Public Health, Training Survey
2021 GPST1 History of MedEd
2022 GPST2 AccuRx QIA, AiT Rep,
2023 GPST3 (MSc HRM) ACF

10. My 1st Attempt at Online MedEd
Year 1 Med School – Facebook 2009

11. 2 Know Your Goals
● Personal – tick a box, satisfaction, curiosity?
● Career – bare minimum, specific job, academic?
● Reputation – networks, friends, family, career, presentations, prizes?
● Humanity?

12. Get a place at medical school
Pass exams, behave well
Be a good student Teach others Publish anything Be a Representative
Medical degree
Competent Teach Publish posters Be a Representative
Post-Grad Exams
Competent Teach
Publish
papers
Be a clinical lead
Knowledgeable with special
interests
Good with
patients
Good with
admin
Publish
Books
Academic
teaching
roles
Publish Guidelines
Chief
Medical
Officer
roles
Special skills – 2nd
opinions
Special skills –
Tertiary opinions
Special skills –
Quaternary
opinions
Professors Citations
Guest
lectures
Social
media
New
Therapies in
RCTs
Elected
Roles
Social
media
Self
Publicity
NGO
Roles
Self
Publicity
Self
Publicity
Low morbidity and mortality
Very Competent
Clinical Ability Additional Work
The Pyramid of Medical Respect
Management roles
Lv 1
Student
Lv 2
Above
Average
Student
Lv 3
Junior Dr
Lv 4
Senior
Dr
Lv 5
Team
Respect
Lv 6
Unit
Respect
Lv 7
Regional
Respect
Lv 8
National
Respect
Lv 9
Inter-nataional
Respect
Lv 10
Global
Respect
Teach a
course

13. 3 Join a team
● Collaborative - STARSurg, WMRC, GPACT etc
● Find someone who balances your strengths and weaknesses

14. Where it all began… Birmingham MedSoc

15. 3 Join a team

16. BMLS Activities, Posters and Prizes

17. 4 Do Something You Enjoy

18. Major Trauma Debriefing (2014)

19. 5 Do Good Work

20. 6 Publish or Perish
1. Poster
2. Oral Presentation
3. Publication
4. Protocol, letter, case report, editorial, invited review, systematic review, new
study

21. My 1st Poster

22. My First Conference (ASiT 2012)

23. ASME (2014) – Teaching Leadership (BMLS)

24. BMLS + FMLM Presentations at FMLM Manchester (2015)

27. RIFT

29. 7 Build Your Own
1. Blog
2. Images for social media
3. e-posters
4. Videos
5. Podcasts
6. Network
7. Contact list
8. Reputation

33. 8 KISS
1. Keep It Simple Stupid
2. Scientific Language - Publications
3. Lay language - newspapers
4. Simple language for social media + images + videos

36. “Underreporting of Secondary Endpoints in Randomized Trials: Cross-Sectional, Observational Study.”
Matthews, Jacob H., Shivam Bhanderi, Stephen J. Chapman, Dmitri Nepogodiev, Thomas Pinkney, and Aneel Bhangu.
Annals of Surgery, January 2016, 1. doi:10.1097/SLA.0000000000001573.
http://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Citation/2016/12000/Underreporting_of_Secondary_Endpoints_in.18.aspx
What is the Wound Infection Rate in General Surgical Trials?
45663 patients
216 GenSurg RCTs
2009 - 2015
Overall SSI rate
7.7%
Primary Endpoint
12.6%
SSI rate
Secondary Endpoint
5.1%
SSI rate
Key points
1 – SSI is more common
than often reported
2 – secondary endpoints
are not as thoroughly
investigated or described
3 – Meta-analysis based on
secondary endpoints may
be systematically underreporting
post-op complication rates
@AnnalsofSurgery
For the full details, please read the full article:
#SSIrate #EmGenSurg #SurgicalResearch #TrialMethodology
@JakeMat91 @ShivBhanderi @SJ_Chapman @dnepo @Pinkney_t @aneelbhangu

37. “Underreporting of Secondary Endpoints in Randomized Trials: Cross-Sectional, Observational Study.”
Matthews, Jacob H., Shivam Bhanderi, Stephen J. Chapman, Dmitri Nepogodiev, Thomas Pinkney, and Aneel Bhangu.
Annals of Surgery, January 2016, 1. doi:10.1097/SLA.0000000000001573.
How common are Wound Infections in General Surgery?
The SSI mean rates were calculated from 45663 patients in 216 GenSurg RCTs between 2009 - 2015
Overall SSI rate
7.7%
Primary Endpoint
12.6%
SSI rate
Well assessed
Secondary Endpoint
5.1%
SSI rate
Poorly assessed
@AnnalsofSurgery
For further details, please read the article: http://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Citation/2016/12000/Underreporting_of_Secondary_Endpoints_in.18.aspx
#SSIrate #EmGenSurg #SurgicalResearch #TrialMethodology
@JakeMat91 @ShivBhanderi @SJ_Chapman @dnepo @Pinkney_t @aneelbhangu

39. 9 Link It
1. LinkTree
2. LinkedIn
3. Research Gate
4. Twitter
5. Facebook
6. Instagram
7. TikTok
8. Youtube
9. Publons
10.Google Scholar
11.SEO?

42. 10 Share It Widely
1. Use everything
2. Ask colleagues for help
3. Say “Yes” to opportunities

44. Top 10 Tips
1. Know yourself
2. Know your goals
3. Join a team
4. Do something you enjoy
5. Do good work
6. Publish
7. Build your own
8. KISS
9. Link it
10.Share it widely

59. ESCP Barcelona (2015)

61. Where did it all begin? Wordpress