Becoming a Successful Scholar A Practical Guide to Academic Achievement in the Medical Professions

This book is a toolkit for young academic physicians and researchers to learn the behaviors and steps necessary for achieving success in academia. Written by a successful academic clinician, the book shares his personal experience alongside his years of successfully teaching and mentoring young medical professionals. The author’s main aim is to provide insightful tips and tricks that will hopefully not only motivate the reader to persevere through difficult competitive periods in his or her life, but also provide him or her with a strategic behavioral plan that will solidify his or her work habits and ensure success.

Introduction

Why Should We Publish?

Lack of Evidence-based Guidance

Fanatic Discipline

Empirical Creativity

Productive Paranoia

Return on Luck

The Mindset Helps

Behaviors that Make You More Successful

• Using Influencing Tools to Keep You Focused
  
• The Fight against the Email Inbox
  
• Making Schedules
  
• Making Lists
  

Writing Your Paper

• Literature Search and Organization
  
• Organizing your Work – Literature Search
  
• Organizing your Work – Formatting
  
• Before you Start writing
  
• Choosing the Journal
  
• Writing the Introduction
  
• Writing the Methods
  
• Writing the Results
  
• Writing the Discussion
  

Perseverance

Reviewing

The Road to Success

YOUR Future Road to Success

Guido Filler, MD, PhD, FRCPC is Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. He is also Division Chief of Paediatric Nephrology at the Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Filler has authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications and is an active participant in a large array of administrative committees within this academic health sciences centre. He is the deputy editor of the journal Pediatric Transplantation and he is on the editorial board of pediatric nephrology, transplantation, pharmacology and pediatric journals. He has also been recognized for his postgraduate teaching.

Ravneet Nagra is a student of neuroscience at Western University in London, Ontario. She has worked closely with Dr. Filler and published with him in the Journal of Child Science.