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 With proper guidance and methodological support, most professionals who seek aid from the Researcher’s Support Room will increase participation in clinical research, resulting in more evidence and thus improvement of clinical practice.

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 The Researcher’s Support Room is important too for networking and enhancing or catalyzing collaborations and networks between scientists seeking support and other more experienced researchers who work in the specific field that can offer mentoring.

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Also, it provides a platform to motivate candidates and further their motivation to seek formal post-graduation programmes, for sponsorship and supervision.

Impact of the Researcher’s Support Room in the University Hospital of Brasilia

Since the Researcher’s Support Room started in October 2020, in the first year it has run more than 115 online and in-person technical and methodological advising sessions related to more than 40 projects, and serving more than 80 interested professionals. Further, 16 researchers entered a formal postgraduate (Master’s or PhD) degree program under direct assistance from the Room, by offering methodological guidance or through intermediating access to faculty advisors in the University of Brasilia and other Institutions.

 

"A surge in scientific projects was observed in our Institution, and among the projects the committee has worked with, many have published results in a short period of time."1

 

Given its accrued experience in mapping and dealing with researchers’ difficulties, the Room has also been invited to participate, along with other institutional counterparts, in the ongoing revision and development of the hospital’s overall research policy. Finally, the Room became a bridge between research groups in our hospital and in Faculties in the University of Brasilia and other Institutions, even abroad.

 

"The University Hospital of Brasilia despite being a tertiary healthcare facility, focused in high-complexity assistance, is small in its size and workforce. Thus, these achievements in so little time are surprising even to us. We believe we are contributing to solve unmet needs in our hospital, through the Researcher’s Support Room, and that this Project (once replicated) could also benefit other hospitals where clinical researchers might find challenges like those we have been observing in our Institution."

 

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