General piece of advice: if you use #ChatGPT as a tool in your writing, make sure you edit the results!
ChatGPT is lovely for getting rid of your blank page, but it provides horribly obfuscating and insanely generic writing.
Writing anything remotely personal cannot be done by ChatGPT alone, you still need to do most of the work
Canada's academic environment is absurd for junior researchers. PhDs barely get any funding.
Postdocs are exploited with a stipend that has been flat for 20 years!! Few opportunities to lead research. You can't be a PI until you're an ECR meaning basically faculty or equivalent.
At Oxford, I was supported to apply for fellowships, I was lead author on some papers, I was PI on a few grants, one from NIHR. Canada won't allow that.
Of course there's a brain drain
Interviewing healthcare staff and local policymakers across departments has taught me a lot about the politics of health care systems.
Everyone wants to make healthcare better. But some people just want to implement their vision, causing frustration and inefficiency throughout.
Reviewer and editor want us to conform to specific guidelines on manuscript structure: not allowed to have references in Results section, only engage with literature in Discussion.
Not how qualitative research works. It presents "Analysis", not "Results". Need to show where ideas and analysis come from.
Published with this journal before. It's never been a problem. Shows how much of publication is totally random and subject to bias.
ECR life:
I haven't gotten around to finishing up a manuscript from my previous post-doc, because I'm still finishing up manuscripts from the post-doc before, all while collecting data and conducting analysis for my current post-doc 😶🤐
We recorded 15 #physiotherapy consultations by video in 3 settings (long-term pain, neuromuscular rehabilitation, and orthopaedics) and analysed how physiotherapists and patients communicate around physical examinations and exercises. #EMCA
This paper zooms in on two challenges: (1) patient safety and comfort and (2) visibility during exercises/examination
Excited that our paper on communication in video consultations for physiotherapy settings is finally accepted and available as a pre-proof
Main paper following from our NIHR-funded project - the first grant I led as PI (with @sarashawx2 as co-PI)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031940623000603
Paper on #EMCA communication around safety and visibility in #videoconsultations in #physiotherapy settings has been accepted 🥳🥳 super fast turnaround by editor this time (after 15month wait)
Challenge to get Conversation Analysis into a medical journal, even one that often does qualitative research. Lots of lessons learned.
But excited when it'll be published.
Starting Thanksgiving weekend with fairly positive reviews on a paper :)
Particularly impressed with one reviewer, clearly engaged and critical, while still being incredibly supportive.
Definitely gonna try and emulate that for future reviews myself
Following up on previous post :)
I'm a Research Associate at Trillium in Toronto and a Health Services Researcher at University of Oxford
Focus on #digitalhealth, mainly video consulting.
Currently working on how to make #healthcare better for patients with complex needs, particularly #primarycare and #longtermcare by improving community-hospital relations
Qualitative research withing #implementationscience using #conversationanalysis and qualitative interviews
Give me hashtags :)
