{"id":39968,"date":"2013-11-16T22:10:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T03:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&p=39968"},"modified":"2013-11-18T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T21:46:32","slug":"advice-for-fellows-in-training-focus-persistence-are-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/11\/16\/advice-for-fellows-in-training-focus-persistence-are-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for Fellows-in-Training: Focus, Persistence Are Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.13 in Dallas this week are blogging for CardioExchange. The Fellows include\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Vimal Ramjee<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Siqin Ye<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Seth Martin<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Reva Balakrishnan<\/strong><\/a>, and\u00a0\u00a0Saurav Chatterjee<\/strong><\/a>. You can find the previous post here<\/a>. For more of our AHA.13 coverage of late-breaking clinical trials, interviews with the authors of the most important research, and blogs from our fellows on the most interesting presentations at the meeting, check out our <\/em>AHA.13 Headquarters<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

This year, unlike the last time I was at AHA, I arrived a day early and attended some sessions that I hadn’t been able to in the past: the fellows-in-training early-career sessions. The most memorable quote from the sessions came from Robert Califf \u2014”A research career is more like a game of basketball than a game of golf” \u2014 emphasizing the importance of a team approach and collaboration with mentors in advancing your career goals.<\/p>\n

There were many pearls from these sessions for those interested in pursuing an academic career, and some of the best advice came from an afternoon panel. Robert Harrington encouraged fellows to think outside the box in an era of dwindling NIH funding and to look for nontraditional sources of funding such as foundation grants. He emphasized that we need to rethink how research is funded altogether \u2014 pointing to the TASTE trial done in Sweden on aspiration thrombectomy, which was done with minimal funding, compared to multi-million-dollar randomized controlled trials.<\/p>\n

Sanjiv Shah encouraged fellows to focus on their specific interests, not to overcommit to too many projects and papers (emphasizing that two focused papers are better than ten that are all over the place), and to form relationships with mentors and sponsors early.<\/p>\n

Overall, the most common theme emphasized was that of persistence \u2014 learning to never give up in the face of rejection, as grant writing can be a difficult and overwhelming process with an often disappointing rejection rate.<\/p>\n

Today was an informative day for fellows in all stages – and even for young faculty early in their career, important advice in the changing landscape.<\/p>\n

What other pearls of wisdom did you obtain from these sessions, and how did you feel leaving them?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of CardioExchange’s blogging fellows shares her highlights of the AHA’s fellows-in-training sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1306,1187,195,362],"class_list":["post-39968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-american-heart-association","tag-cardiology-conferences","tag-fellowship-training-2","tag-meeting-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}