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Pubication Practice Survey by YEHS

Publication Practice Survey 2022

Dear Colleague,
 
This short survey reviews publication practice among young hand surgeons. We would like to get to know which resources are available for you, but also which obstacles you face.
This information will allow us to understand how you are prepared for this part of your job and what you would need to improve your publication practice.
We are interested in how you obtain information about Hand Surgery, irrespective of you are a an Orthopaedic Surgeon, a Plastic Surgeon or a Hand Surgeon. 
Your participation is, and will remain, completely anonymous, but we would be grateful if you could fill in the following demographics about yourself.
1.Which age group do you belong to?
2.Your gender
3.Your country of training
4.Length of hand surgery training
5.What is your specialty? , , , Other
6.Your training department is
7.How big is your training department? How many consultants, how many residents are in your department?
8.Have you had your training in a ...
9.Have you had your residency in a university hospital?
10.Did you learn how to set up a study?
11.If yes, when?
12.If yes, how?
13.Did you learn how to write a paper?
14.If yes, when?
15.If yes, how?
16.Did you get training in methodology and statistics with regards to publishing?
17.If yes, when?
18.If yes, how?
19.CURRENT JOB/TRAINING

Are you working in a university hospital?
20.Do you have any academic degree?
21.If yes, which one?
22.Did you have a paid contract as researcher before being a resident?
23.Do you momentarily have a contract as researcher while being a resident?
24.If you publish or published, did you receive payments (either direct payment as salary or bonus, as indirect payment as paid working time) for this?
25.Do you have to publish to be able to apply for your national exam or to complete your training/residency?
26.Do you have to publish for your department, i.e. are you expected to do so?
27.RESOURCES
Do you have a dedicated workplace in your department?
28.Are medical journals accessible for free (at least a reasonable number of journals from your specialty)?
29.Can you access medical journals also from home?
30.Is there methodological and statistical advice and help available?
31.Is there a laboratory in your hospital/university where they can run study experiments?
32.Do you get any financial help from a sponsor or company for your publications?
33.Is it easy to put in a research request to the ethical commission (apart from costs)?
34.If no, why?
35.Have you found any obstacles to publish?
36.If yes, which?
37.What else would you need to do more research or publish?
38.PRACTICE HABITS
When do you work on publications?
39.Is there any guidance on your research?
40.Do you usually work in a team of researchers?
41.If each of you have a specific role in the research group...
42.Do you plan any studies momentarily?
43.Do you write any publications momentarily?
Current Progress,
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