In our department every resident is introduced into clinical reserach and has the possibility to join one of the research teams. Every morning one of the residents has to present an international paper within 3 minutes. This is an excellent possibility to train free speech and to learn how important is is to be up to date in schience.

I'm a young ENT (My Residency is finished just 1 year and half ago.

During my five year in ENT and HEad and NEck surgery department in Brescia I started very early (also during my Internship pre-degree) with clinical research.

I'm sure that is important specially during meeting (for difficult cases, for oncologic patients with others specialities and just to discuss some review o some crucial paper) to involve not only a residents but also a student, interns etc.

Research is a valued aspect of clinical work - residents benefit for themselves and can benefit a research endeavour if they are trained in rigorous methodology - if you engage them, train them well - it's a 2-way street with potentially good outcomes - valid research & future quality researchers

During my work in clinical research, I observed an increased awareness and enhanced experience of residents in their clinical practice when they are trained in the Clinical trials related guidelines and GCP. This will affect the quality of generated data during the research and consequently, this will effectively boost up physicians' contribution during the progress of these studies beside  their medical expertise. 

With the advent of advances in clinical research, it is right time to tune the medical curriculum and imparting clinical research to the residents. Having said that first we need to identify the residents who are keen pursue and further their clinical research as their career. For other a basic understanding in the area will suffice.  

If proper research training including GCP is introduced aspart of the medschool or residency curriculum residents are in an ideal position to assist with research. Both the institution and the resident gain from a better understanding of clinical reseach. The resident gains a more critical approach to reviewing literature and a better understanding of the limitations of research studies. The institution gains from another set of hands to facilitate research, fresh ideas, and potential future researchers. Unfortunately too many institutions assume this knowledge has already been conferred, and the clinicians assigned to mentor residents are not well trained in GCP themselves. The institution is put at risk legally and its reputation can be damaged by inadvertent unethical and poorly designed research. The resident is left foundering and with a dislike for research because they are expected to accomplish tasks for which they have neither the training nor adequate time to accomplish.