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	A Time-Sensitive Plan for Research Training during Anesthesia Residency at Queen's:   Phase 1 - Fundamentals of Research and Critical Appraisal   Phase 2 - Research Project Conception and Design   Phase 3 - Conduct of Research/Presentation of results   Appendix 1 - Objectives of Training and Specialty Training Requirements in Anesthesia   Appendix 2 - Suggested Guidelines for Critical Appraisal of Papers for the Anesthesia Journal Club
	Phase 3 - Conduct of Research/Presentation of results PGY-2, April 1: • resident (with Advisor's assistance) will start to carry out research plan, e.g. Ethics submission, data recording instruments, patient recruitment etc. • In situations where the proposed project turns out to be unfeasible (e.g. Ethics not approved, patient recruitment inadequate, equipment unavailable etc.) an acceptable alternative to completing the proposed project is for the resident to play a substantial role in gathering, analysing and interpreting data from another proposed project and/or an ongoing project. A less preferable alternative would be to conduct a literature review, however, and such a review would have to be based on some sort of analysis of study data from several (>3) published studies. • If and when an alternative project must be pursued, the resident must submit an explanatory letter to the RPD (for review by RRC) together with a one-page summary of the alternate project or review (with the heading format: clinical need, knowledge gap, hypothesis, study design, pitfalls/feasibility/project timeline). PGY-3, August 1: • resident will submit progress report to RPD (for review by RRC) describing steps which have been accomplished thus far as well as any pilot data collected to date. Comments/suggestions to resident from RRC re: study troubleshooting recommendations for improvement will be returned back to the resident by September 1. PGY-3, January 1: • resident will submit study data in abstract form to RPD (for review by RRC) and resident will also make an oral research presentation in the month of January. • resident will be expected to incorporate feedback from RRC (and from Departmental comments at rounds) in order to improve their proposal for Resident Research Day PGY-3, Jan. 15: • abstract submission to CAS Meeting resident competition PGY-3, March: • project presentation at Resident Research Day; Gold, Silver and Bronze medals for top 3 project presentations • In cases where logistics do not allow for the study to have been completed in time for PGY-3 Resident Research Day, the resident must write an explanatory letter to the RPD together with a reasonable prediction for the date of study completion. In such cases, the resident would then be expected to present their study at PGY-4 Resident Research Day. PGY-4, July 1: • resident submits draft of research manuscript, in a publishable format, to RPD (for review by RRC) comments back to resident by September 1 PGY-4, December 15: • resident submits acknowledgement of receipt of research manuscript from peer-reviewed journal to RPD. If the manuscript is not appropriate for a peer-reviewed journal, resident would be expected to publish the manuscript in some other venue (e.g. Queen's Anesthesiology Research Newsletter, Queen's Health Sciences Journal, etc.) PGY-5: • residents are expected to have completed their research by the end of PGY-4 thus leaving the entire PGY-5 year to focus on FRCPC exam preparation.
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