This is an introductory talk.

2. Career as a
medical
researcher

3. Multiple options after
MBBS

4. Usual options
MD
MS
Direct DM (infectious disease)
Direct MCh (Neuro/Paediatric surgery)
DNB
Diploma courses

5. Other options
MMST
UPSC
Direct PhD
MD/MS.-PhD (Integrative PhD)
MBA/MHA

6. Other options
MMST
Direct PhD
MD/MS.-PhD
(Integrative PhD)

7. MMST
Masters in Medical Science and Technology
Offered by IIT Kharagpur
First and the "only" of its kind in the country with a mission to have
doctors, scientists and engineers working collectively.

8. Physician-Scientists
Any person from medical
background with PhD degree.
MBBS – PhD
MD/MS - PhD
The bridge between medicine and
science.

10. ICMR MD/MS-PhD programme
• Started with a goal to identify young medical
graduates with brilliant academic records and to
motivate them to opt for career in research cadre

11. ICMR MD/MS-PhD programme
• Financial support for 5 years
• Selection through written exam followed by interview
• 25 slots/year

12. ICMR MD/MS-PhD programme
• 2 thesis needs to be submitted (2½ years, 4½ years)
• An additional 1 year post Doctoral fellowship will be
given to successful candidates

13. Pilot institutes
1. King George’s Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow;
2. National Institute of Mental Health and
Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru
3. SRI Ramachandra University , Chennai

14. Funding Agencies
• ICMR
• DST
• DBT
• CSIR
• Welcome trust –DBT

15. Career
Ladder
MBBS
MD/MS/DNB
Senior Residency
Junior Faculty
Senior Faculty
Administrator

16. MBBS

17. ICMR – Short
Term
Studentship
Stipend: Rs. 10,000/- per
month for 2 months’
duration
1500 (1200 seats- MBBS
and 300 seats- BDS) in
2019.

18. Summer
internship at
reputed
institutes
CSIR institutes - CCMB, IGIB
AIIMS
IIT, TIFR

19. Post-Graduation

20. ICMR thesis grant
• Rs 50,000 financial assistance
• 100 per year (10% MDS)
• Candidates must apply within 12 months of registration for the course
• Topics:
• Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR)
• Tuberculosis,
• HIV/AIDS,
• Malaria
• Diabetes &
• Maternal and Child health

21. During and After Senior
Residency

22. CSIR pool officer scheme
• Senior Research Associateship (SRA)
• Maximum of 3 years
• Eligibility: MD/MS/MDS or equivalent degree followed by two years
of Residency in Hospital, or equivalent experience, or research
experience, or higher degrees

23. National Post Doctoral Research Fellowship
(NPDF)
• ICMR and DST (SERB)
• Rs.50,000/- per month plus House Rent Allowance (HRA) for 3 years
• Eligibility: Fresh PhDs/MD/MS within three years of completing their
PhD/MD/MS
• Max. age: 32 years

24. DBT Bio-CARe
• Biotechnology Career Advancement and Re-orientation Programme
(Bio-CARe) for women.
• Eligibility:
• Women Scientists for whom it is the first grant.
• M. Tech / M.D / Ph. D/Equivalent degree in any branch of Life Sciences
• Separate Bio-CARe for Women Scientist from North Eastern States

25. DST – Women Scientists
• Eligibility: MBBS or other equivalent professional qualifications
• Minimum age : 27

26. Junior faculty

27. SERB - Early Career Research (ECR) grant
• Eligibility: Regular faculty in a
recognized academic institution or
national laboratory or any other
recognized R & D institution in India
• Up to 50 lakh over 3 years
(Science and Engineering Research Board)

28. SERB - High Risk - High Reward
• Proposals that are conceptually new and risky, and if successful, expected
to have a paradigm shifting influence on the S&T.
• Eligibility: Must hold a regular academic/research position in a recognized
institution
• There is no budget limit !
• Medical Innovation Fund by ICMR is similar to this

29. Senior Faculty

30. • Extramural Research (EMR) funding scheme
• DBT-Wellcome trust intermediate fellowship
• DBT- Wellcome trust senior research fellowship
• JC Bose fellowship
• Centre for advanced Research
• Emeritus Scientist Scheme

31. Research
Approaches
Intradisciplinary
Multidisciplinary
Interdisciplinary
Transdisciplinary

33. Documentation has it roots
way back!

34. Types of
Publications
Original Research Article
Review Articles
Case Reports
Case Series
Cohort Studies
Case Control Studies
Randomized Control Trials
Meta Analysis
Validation of Diagnostic Tests
Books
Chapters in Books
Monograph

35. Put your eggs in multiple Baskets

36. Authorship
• Importance of contributorship
• Joint First Authorship
• Corresponding Author is not the senior
author

37. Example - Contributorship

38. Don’t add too many authors

39. Gift
authorship

40. Ghost
authorship

41. What to do
with negative
results?

42. Negative finding
is also a finding

43. Journals exclusively for negative results
• Journal of negative results
• Journal of negative results in Biomedicine (Biomed central)
• Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results (wolters Kluwer)
• Scientific Journal Negative Results
• Journal of Negative and No Positive Results

44. ENCODE
Consortium
& many others

45. Shinya Yamanaka
• Surgeon turned Scientist
• 2012 Nobel price for his
discovery of induced
pluripotent stem cells (iPSC)

46. Helen H. Hobbs
• Physician-scientist
• Delivered cell press lecture 2019 -
Genetic Disorders of Dietary Excess

47. Subrata Sinha
• MBBS MD PhD from AIIMS
• Former director of National Brain
Research Institute
• HOD of Dept of Biochemistry, AIIMS

48. Anurag Agrawal
• MBBS from AIIMS
• Director of IGIB (Institute of
Genomics and Integrative Biology)
• Member of taskforce on Artificial
intelligence

49. Vinod Scaria
• MBBS from Kozhikode medical college
• PhD under Dr. S K Brahmachari
• Expert in computational biology

50. Most of the research happens by laying one
brick at a time