Enhancing surgical research at the hospital level: a new model

Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on surgical services: early experiences at a nominated COVID‐19 centre

“…The impact of COVID‐19 on surgical research is inevitable, representing an unprecedented challenge to the strong academic programme established at RPA . A priority for the active surgical studies has been to ensure the safety and well‐being of patients, research participants, clinicians and researchers.…”

Early Results for Enhancing Surgical Research at the Teaching Hospital Level

“…This has been well described with the similarity of issues often leading to a consistent recommendation regarding the critical need for a unified culture and strong institutional support to enable surgeons and their departments to develop sustainable research programs [1][2][3]. Indeed after coming to a crossroad regarding how surgical research could be enhanced at the local teaching hospital level, an institution wide approach was considered pivotal in developing a new model and way forward [4]. Established in early 2014, the strategy involved creating a novel hospital-based surgical academic institute with the goal to be the primary hub of surgical research and education at the hospital through the promotion, support and development of academic surgical departments [4].…”

“…Indeed after coming to a crossroad regarding how surgical research could be enhanced at the local teaching hospital level, an institution wide approach was considered pivotal in developing a new model and way forward [4]. Established in early 2014, the strategy involved creating a novel hospital-based surgical academic institute with the goal to be the primary hub of surgical research and education at the hospital through the promotion, support and development of academic surgical departments [4]. Recognising that research success is rare outside a supportive environment, [1] the focus was to utilise enthusiastic leaders from surgical departments with strong academic output to support the majority of departments who were less academically active and to embed an organizational wide approach to providing infrastructure and research resources to ultimately increase their output [4].…”

“…Established in early 2014, the strategy involved creating a novel hospital-based surgical academic institute with the goal to be the primary hub of surgical research and education at the hospital through the promotion, support and development of academic surgical departments [4]. Recognising that research success is rare outside a supportive environment, [1] the focus was to utilise enthusiastic leaders from surgical departments with strong academic output to support the majority of departments who were less academically active and to embed an organizational wide approach to providing infrastructure and research resources to ultimately increase their output [4]. Following an initial needs assessment to establish the baseline of available research resources and activity, [5] a wide range of strategies were implemented by the institute covering leadership and governance, research support groups and funding and resource initiatives.…”

Surgical research in the public hospital

“…In this issue of the journal, McBride et al . describe a novel approach to promote surgical research in a public hospital system.…”