1. 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.

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

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

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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, Present Chair Elect (Hunter Starring) containing an attached paragraph:

7. 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

8. 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

9. Topic Talk by Dr. Leonardi
Data Collection & Data Interpretation

10. Active Projects/Progress/Questions

11. 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

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

13. Questions & Discussion