Charlie - PSP (2020-2021)

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I'm a senior resident in the stand, Very good scientist pathway. Today I just wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about this particular track. So this pathway is also known as PS PS for residents who are interested in academic career as an independent investigator in either basic or translational sciences. Every year there's about 8 to 12 of us in the program who are kind of a PSP in each class who either have an MD PhD or have taken substantial amounts of time to do laboratory research while in medical school. The track is led by Carry SoCal and J Russia Paul, as well as Mark Queen and Alan Mullen, who I have to say there I'm all incredibly amazing president scientists and really invested in the development of future investigators. So during the year, the PSP residents air cohort it together during a block called the Stand Very, they were blocked, and that's really an opportunity where they get to meet each other. We give chalk talks to each other on our prior research, and it's really kind of a wave thio interface with the scientific community in the residency program and also at large. So we'll often invite both junior and senior scientists to come and give us some talks on their research, but also to give us their perspectives on what it's like to build a career as a physician scientist. So I would say, probably what is one of my favorite things about the stand Very program is really the opportunity interface with some of these scientists, especially the more senior ones who are often times a great source of wisdom on how to build a career in science. Throughout the year, we also host Stand Very, uh, PSP talks that if they happened in the afternoon and usually involving a researcher in Boston who comes and gives a brief kind of one hour lecture on their work, it's a great time and just a nice way to stay involved in science by the sometimes busy residency schedule. So one thing that is very unique and MGH is the pathways consul service, and this is a rotation that residents can spend on and all stand very residents with both take part in this rotation, where the residents really get the opportunity to think about a particular patient who is referred to the service for an unusual kind of computer type. The phenotype is yet to be explained from a basic science or path of physiologic standpoint. In the Goal, Dissertation is really to generate one mechanistic hypothesis for what is going on and then to to propose tentative investigatory approaches that might help one answer these hypotheses. So I'd have to say that some of the cases have been quite interesting, and we've even had residents who have come away with some novel discoveries, like germline mutations that might explain particular presentation. You know, I've come to find that also, for patients, this can be, ah, partnership because oftentimes these patients have been admitted medicine services over and over, and no one could give them a straightforward answer as to what's going on. It's really way to integrate the bedside care that we provide with some of the scientific thinking that we've been trained in a speech scientists and you'll find that, you know, on a busy medicine service, there will be oftentimes when you see something unexpected but really don't have the time to think deep about it, and this is really the perfect opportunity. So this is just something else that I think is really unique and special about MGH on, you know, regardless of whether and that this is something that floats your boat. It's a wonderful thing tohave for residents, I think who are interested in science. So I would say that probably the best thing about the PSP in my mind is really the mentorship, as well as the opportunity to be cohort ID with many of your co residents who really love science and have done all kinds of incredible research. So during your training you will find that probably your schedule that won't look terribly different. You'll have some time created for you so that you can do things like interface with very scientists and seek out mentorship or seek out projects, and then also seek the advice of the likes of people who walked the road before, like Jay and Carry and others. To really make sure that you have the deliberate mentorship in planning that I would say are important in probably necessary for successful career in At the Scientists, the PSP is different in a semantic sense from the FBI AM research pathway. You don't have to short track, but I would say a lot of residents do. Many, if not most of the residents choose to stay in Boston for a fellowship training. I think the city is incredible in that it offers a very, very rich environment for research. It's no surprise, I think, why a lot of people choose to stay. So if you made it this far into this video, you probably know that the path to becoming a physician scientist is a long but an exciting one. I really do think that our program offers a thoughtful approach to training physician scientists and really is lead by wonderful leadership to make sure that if you come here that you'll be able to succeed in whatever research the menu and give you.