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Publishing my first review article- The journey

Hello everyone,

I'm excited to share with you all that 2023 is a reap year! It feels great to see all the hard work and effort I've put in over the past couple of years starting to take shape (Alhamdulillah!).

As a resident, I was always curious and would ask numerous questions that would sometimes irritate my seniors around me. However, not much has changed except for the fact that I'm no longer a junior resident and my audience has changed.

But to get to the point, I used to conduct several audits to validate my arguments, but unfortunately, none of them were published. I was only able to pull off two of them till the poster presentation stage, but that was it.
Publishing my work always seemed daunting and intimidating, and I would procrastinate so much that my mentors eventually gave up on me and my research endeavors. A month after my residency, I was left feeling clueless about what to do next.

However, I tapped into my potential in YouTube, podcasts and reached out to Dr. Alireza Baratloo. He was extremely kind to accept my invitation as a guest to record responses to my questions for my YouTube channel, The EM Code. During our conversation, I asked him how EM residents can start research work or explore its potential.

Dr. Baratloo's advice inspired me to start all over again, but this time with a smaller task of writing a review article. To know what he exactly said, you can watch the video (Link: https://youtu.be/loiB5zR470I, Hang on till the end, excuse the video quality).Because zero is a great number to start with, giving you scope of endless possibilities.

I decided to write a review about the problems faced by EDs in real-time, and one day I stumbled upon an article that said design could play a significant role in preventing violence. It was a less-spoken-about but more apparent problem.

I did my research, but then I fell back into procrastination. That's when I asked my friend Dr. Sudhir for help with the technicalities of the job. My ideas were all over the place, and I needed help streamlining the process. The publishing lane was a haunted arena to tap, and the best thing to do was to ask for help.

With Sudhir's help, I navigated through the process and understood the technicalities and tools that would aid the project. Our first product was ready, but if you were to read it now, you would probably say it was immature!

Thanks to repeated yet patient feedback from Dr. Baratloo, who would not accept anything below standard, we studied extensively and found more relevant articles to make it up to the mark.

Finally! We got it published, and I feel extremely proud to have overcome my mental block and procrastination.

The exercise was incredibly useful, and I'm now on my way to publishing a study that I've been working on for a year. Wish me luck!

So far, so much!
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