The positive impact of Research to Publication on the career of an experienced researcher Dr. Guillermo Delgado-García is a 2018 Research to Publication graduate who has published 60 articles throughout his research career. Twenty-five of these articles were published two years after completing the Research to Publication course – all in international journals. He was the lead author in 12 of them. He believes that one of the biggest challenges in learning research skills is that clinical research knowledge is not part of the curriculum at Latin American medical schools, at least that was the case a few years ago. Luckily, this scenario is starting to change. He also mentioned the language barrier that exists, since many Latin Americans struggle to write in English. He has
Research to Publication helped him overcome these challenges. “The course mentions some tools and gives advice on how we can choose or keep in mind that there are different types of journals. It was really helpful for me. When preparing for my first round of clinical trials, I remember referring to my notes twice because I know I used some of the methods mentioned.” After completing the course, Dr. Orozco published his first article in an international journal, a clinical study investigating cardiac computer tomography (CT) aortic valve disease evaluation. The researcher has now published six articles in total, three of them as the lead author. “I’m a Ph.D. student, but I'm also a cardiologist, so the clinical part is very important to me; it's my job. Master’s degrees (students) are not involved in randomized clinical trials; it's difficult because we don't receive training in this
area. My university gave the license to take the course, and it was really helpful.”
Dr. Orozco believes the course helped him evolve as a researcher. He was recently accepted into Amsterdam's University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) Ph.D. program. For him, being published improved his CV and opened up new opportunities. He also feels that the course helped him overcome his insecurities. “Five years ago, I wasn’t an experienced writer. Sometimes we feel that we can’t publish because we think, 'maybe my work is not good enough for that journal, or maybe it’s not important to other people.' So taking the course helped me a lot.” Dr. Orozco believes Research to Publication is beneficial for MD students, residents, and others involved in clinical trials early in their careers since the course is easy to follow and understand.
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