PERSPECTIVES

Dr. Citak and Ms. Busch shared an exciting upcoming program of education and research, called Research Anchor Publishing. Our discussion uncovered 3 core themes. These themes and their supporting insights are highlighted below.

1. What is Research Anchor Publishing?

Ms. Busch informed us that Research Anchor Publishing is a medical consulting company for medical sciences. They aim to teach international clinical research methodologies in a practice-oriented way to support early-career researchers with their scholarly activities.

Ms. Busch shared that they offer training with different levels of difficulty. Learners can either watch the online lectures systematically from one part to the other, or watch each section independently.

2. The Driving Purpose for Operating Research Anchor Publishing

Dr. Citak and Ms. Busch agreed with Dr. Bhandari that there is a great need for education in various aspects of research. When they were giving seminars to medical students and fellow physicians in the Endo Clinic Hamburg, the attendants wondered whether they could receive more information because they were starting to write their doctoral thesis and needed to learn how to cite, as well as other knowledge. Neither the classes in medical school nor seminars in the hospital provided enough training to students and clinicians on how to do research. More education was highly requested. The three co-founders of Research Anchor Publishing decided to start this project in a way that will allow many people to benefit from it.

3. What does Research Anchor Publishing offer?

Ms. Busch stated that they would start to teach people from the basics, like how to read a paper efficiently, how to retrieve the needed information from various medical databases. They would also start with teaching how to write a specific study design, starting with the case report because it has the lowest level of evidence, and is the easiest way to publish. These are the three aspects that they would cover in the beginning.

Since most research methodologies require English medical terminology, the courses are offered in German as well as English language.

SENSE-MAKING

Co-founders of Research Anchor Publishing, Dr. Citak and Ms. Busch talked about their goal of helping more people to learn how to do research. They offer courses in German and English, to a variety of learners, from the beginners who are looking to get involved in research, all the way through to those looking to design a study or even conduct a meta-analysis. In the beginning of this project, the education modules will cover how to read a paper efficiently, how to retrieve the needed information from various medical databases and how to write a specific study design, starting with the case report.