Orthopaedic Research Committee Month day, year Your Name Class Name Mission Statement *To connect students with the information and faculty needed to guide and maximize medical student’s time to choose, start and complete research of the highest quality.

Committee Includes Faculty Leader = Dr. Vinod Dasa (vdasa@lsuhsc.edu) Faculty Leader = Dr. Robert Zura (rzura@lsuhsc.edu) Committee Director = Ms. Cara Rowe (cjoh26@lsuhsc.edu) Statistician = Ms. Claudia Leonardi (cleon1@lsuhsc.edu) Committee Chair = Stuart Schexnayder (ssche2@lsuhsc.edu) Senior Advisor to the Chair = Matthew Fury (mfury@lsuhsc.edu) Chair Elect = Hunter Starring L2 (hstarr@lsuhsc.edu)

Committee Meetings will be held quarterly Q1 - Aug. – Oct. Q2 - Nov. – Jan. Q3 - Feb. – Apr. Q4 - May – July

Goals for Today Brief Intro Applying to become new Chair Elect Tips on Lit Review Topic Talk= Data Collection & Data Interpretation (by Dr. Leonardi) Active Projects/Progress/Questions List of Projects to Start Now Questions

Chair Elect Chair Elect (L2) = Serves as an advisor to the Chair and acts as a voice of the L1 and L2 classes Becomes the Committee Chair (L3 year) then Senior Advisor to the Chair (L4 year)

Chair Elect Requirements Must be Interested in Orthopaedics Member of the Orthopaedics Interest Group Past or Present Involvement with at least one research project If interested and meet above requirements, email Present Chair Elect (Hunter Starring) containing an attached paragraph:

Chair Elect The paragraph should indicate that they meet the requirements, and why they would be a good fit for this position. Maximum 250 words DUE: February 24th Present Chair Elect will read and narrow it down to 3 finalist. Dr. Dasa and Dr. Mora will then choose 1 of the 3 to be the new chair elect

Tips on Literature Review Utilize your library access off campus Will give you access to almost all articles Look at paper similar on right will show papers that cited it this will lead you to newer papers those new papers citations will help as well Refworks

Topic Talk by Dr. Leonardi Data Collection & Data Interpretation

Active Projects/Progress/Questions

Short List of Projects to Start Now Chart Review Dasa factors that affect postoperative TKA patients' discharge same day vs. next day Prospective Krause, Lee comparing tight rope vs screw fixation for syndesmosis injuries Retrospective Krause rates of femur fx treatment following osteoperosis meds (bisphosphanate vs PTH, etc) *also it is a good time to get on PGY2 projects

Short List of Projects to Start Now How to go about claiming a project

Questions & Discussion