1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,860 Welcome to the Clinician Researcher podcast, where academic clinicians learn the skills 2 00:00:05,860 --> 00:00:11,260 to build their own research program, whether or not they have a mentor. 3 00:00:11,260 --> 00:00:17,340 As clinicians, we spend a decade or more as trainees learning to take care of patients. 4 00:00:17,340 --> 00:00:22,380 When we finally start our careers, we want to build research programs, but then we find 5 00:00:22,380 --> 00:00:27,780 that our years of clinical training did not adequately prepare us to lead our research 6 00:00:27,780 --> 00:00:29,200 program. 7 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:35,480 Through no fault of our own, we struggle to find mentors, and when we can't, we quit. 8 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:40,580 However, clinicians hold the keys to the greatest research breakthroughs. 9 00:00:40,580 --> 00:00:46,200 For this reason, the Clinician Researcher podcast exists to give academic clinicians 10 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:51,800 the tools to build their own research program, whether or not they have a mentor. 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:01:01,160 Now introducing your host, Toyosi Onwuemene. 12 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,280 Welcome to the Clinician Researcher podcast. 13 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:08,520 I'm your host, Toyosi Onwuemene, and it is such a pleasure to be talking with you today. 14 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:10,200 Thank you for listening. 15 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,460 I'm excited to continue the thread that we started in the last episode, and that's really 16 00:01:14,460 --> 00:01:18,080 talking about planning, planning for success. 17 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,760 So this episode is about how to plan for your research success. 18 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,280 And I want to tell you that your work matters. 19 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,880 The research you do is amazing. 20 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:34,420 It is life-transforming, and I want as many people as possible to benefit from it. 21 00:01:34,420 --> 00:01:39,560 And part of your success is having a plan and executing on the plan. 22 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:45,000 So last week, we talked about tools that you would need for succeeding in spite of a broken 23 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,000 mentoring system. 24 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,720 And today, I'm going to talk about planning, which is one of your tools. 25 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:51,720 Planning is so important. 26 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:53,560 I'm showing a whole episode on it. 27 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:58,000 So I can talk to you about planning for research success. 28 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Okay. 29 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Planning. 30 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,360 So I didn't know, you know, it's interesting. 31 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:08,880 When I started as an undergraduate, I mapped out my next four years because I was in a 32 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:14,320 small liberal arts college, and there were some courses that were not offered every year. 33 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:19,220 Some of those courses were going to be prerequisites for graduation or maybe even prerequisites 34 00:02:19,220 --> 00:02:20,520 for the next course. 35 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,880 And so I would look and say, hmm, this course is offered every other year, and I need this 36 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:26,760 course so I can take this course. 37 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,080 Therefore, I'm going to make sure I take this course by this time. 38 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,440 And I mapped out my entire undergraduate career. 39 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:37,680 Actually, sometimes I can't believe I did that, but it was very helpful because every 40 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,680 year I would just pick up the plan and some things would change a little bit. 41 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,800 But for the most part, the plan stayed in place. 42 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,880 And so planning is so helpful. 43 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:50,080 So it's interesting when I got to my faculty career, how much I didn't plan. 44 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,560 And I think one of the challenges with planning is that what am I planning for? 45 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,920 I have clinic this week and next week and then the week after that. 46 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:02,480 And okay, so I could do some planning around my clinic, maybe spend time, you know, prepping 47 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:09,200 notes and, you know, closing charts to make sure that I'm not behind from the next clinic. 48 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,760 I could plan the clinic, but what about my research? 49 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,960 I didn't have a plan for my research. 50 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,320 And somebody, and in particular, it was the National Center for Faculty Development and 51 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,440 Diversity and that the founder is Carrie Ann Rockamore. 52 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,400 She was the one who taught me how to plan. 53 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,440 Okay, she taught me how to plan. 54 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,520 And actually, since then, I've had many people help me in my planning. 55 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:36,680 So at the end of this, I want to say the foundation is really Carrie Ann Rockamore and how she 56 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,800 shared with me how to plan. 57 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,040 And a lot of other people have contributed along the way. 58 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,720 And this at least is the way in which I'm presenting it to you. 59 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:50,480 Okay, for more resources, I will add in the show notes websites that you can go look at 60 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,000 to think about your planning. 61 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:01,400 Okay, so the very first thing I want to share is the importance of having a plan for your 62 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:02,400 life. 63 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:09,600 Now, I started from a huge high level, the level of planning your life and it's like, 64 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,960 whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's let's come back here. 65 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:14,600 Who can plan a life? 66 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,880 Actually it's, it's very difficult to do. 67 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:17,880 I agree. 68 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,140 It's very, very big, daunting, challenging task. 69 00:04:20,140 --> 00:04:23,640 And when we're talking about moving forward to your research, it's like, oh, is my life 70 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,160 the first place we begin planning? 71 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:30,560 But I do want to pause and put in a plug for planning your life. 72 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,120 You cannot plan your whole life. 73 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:37,140 You cannot plan every aspect of your life, but what you can do is plan the things you 74 00:04:37,140 --> 00:04:40,240 want to make sure to accomplish. 75 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,320 Those are the things that don't change. 76 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:48,480 I want to make sure that 20 years from now, I have a healthy relationship with my children. 77 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,840 Now, I don't want that to be left off to chance and I can be intentional about it so that 78 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:58,280 20 years from now, the chances are high that I'm going to have a great relationship with 79 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,880 my children because I'm setting the building blocks now. 80 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,640 Do you see the kind of life planning I'm talking about? 81 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:09,160 I'm not saying, you know, make up the plan for where you'd be living 17 years from now, 82 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,360 but maybe you know, maybe you're like, you know, when we went to Costa Rica, it was an 83 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,760 experience that changed our lives. 84 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:19,280 And we know that when we retire, we're moving to Costa Rica and I would say plan it. 85 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:24,120 And maybe as you're doing your planning, you say, why do we want to wait until we're 65 86 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:25,120 to go to Costa Rica? 87 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:30,360 Why not go now and vacation there every year or maybe have a second home there. 88 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:35,320 And we go in the summers, you know, so those are the kinds of things I'm talking about. 89 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:39,920 The kinds of things that you know, 40, 50 years from now, I want this to still be important 90 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:40,920 to me. 91 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,040 Now, the theme is important, right? 92 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:49,120 The theme I'm talking about in life planning is really your health, your relationships. 93 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,780 It's your health and your relationships. 94 00:05:50,780 --> 00:05:52,840 It's your personal development. 95 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:56,940 Like no matter what's happening in the world 20 years from now, I want to be more than 96 00:05:56,940 --> 00:05:57,940 I am today. 97 00:05:57,940 --> 00:05:58,940 I want to know more. 98 00:05:58,940 --> 00:06:04,760 I want to have like a higher sense of self actualization than I do now. 99 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:06,760 I don't have to wait and see what happens. 100 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:07,760 I can plan that. 101 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,280 I can plan that in the books I choose to read. 102 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:13,600 I can plan that in the career development courses that I take. 103 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,360 I can plan them the professional development opportunities available to me. 104 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,320 I can plan those things. 105 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,560 So that's what I'm inviting you to do as you think about your life plan. 106 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,280 And as you think about your life plan, I want you to think about these specific domains. 107 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:31,400 I want you to think about the domain of your personal and intellectual development. 108 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:36,280 Now, if you're a clinician, and I hope you're a clinician scientist listening to me or an 109 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:41,480 aspiring or developing clinician scientist, then you've made a huge investment in your 110 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,720 intellectual development just by becoming a physician. 111 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,720 But you know, and I know, that science knowledge is changing. 112 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,160 And the things you knew so well today, you come back to the wards two years from now, 113 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,520 and already there's been an evolution. 114 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,000 So scientific knowledge is changing. 115 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,840 Intellectual knowledge is evolving. 116 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:05,280 It's growing to know things more deeply. 117 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:08,760 And so you cannot say, well, I went to medical school and learned a lot of things. 118 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,960 And oh my gosh, you did learn a lot. 119 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,120 That cannot be the end of your intellectual development. 120 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:15,380 Have a plan for that. 121 00:07:15,380 --> 00:07:18,320 And I think that is one of the most important things you'll do. 122 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:19,320 Okay. 123 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:23,120 Have a plan for your personal development, right? 124 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:24,280 Personal growth. 125 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,960 Like, how do you become a kinder person? 126 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,280 How do you become someone who has more compassion? 127 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:30,280 Right? 128 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,000 These are not things we just sit and hope we were kinder. 129 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,560 These are not things we just sit and hope you are more patient. 130 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:36,560 We develop a plan. 131 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:42,120 So I want to make a plug for a book that helps me put together a life plan. 132 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:48,160 And it's called Living Forward by Daniel Harkavy and Michael Hyatt. 133 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,120 And they talk about developing a life plan. 134 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,320 And so I want to share that resource with you. 135 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:58,520 It's a great read and it actually helps you just put in the big domains of your life. 136 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,100 You know, as another example, health, that's kind of like an easy example. 137 00:08:02,100 --> 00:08:07,200 At the age of 90, I want to be flexible and I want to have good muscle mass. 138 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,240 Now I don't have to wait until 90 to decide to try to achieve that goal. 139 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,880 I know that it involves strength training today. 140 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,920 It involves exercise today. 141 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:20,920 So that's the amazing thing about having a life plan is that you can start to execute 142 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:27,920 on your life plan today and you can actually choose what parts of your life you control. 143 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:32,640 Like, you know, you just don't control the future, but you can control what health you'll 144 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,680 be in when you get to the future. 145 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:38,880 You can control the quality of your relationships when you get to the future. 146 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,840 And because as you make a plan, then you know what to invest in today. 147 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:48,680 So the very, very first thing that's important in your research success is your life plan. 148 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:53,880 The reason your life plan is important is because you do not want to get to the end 149 00:08:53,880 --> 00:09:00,440 of this research success and realize that you're alone on the top of a beautiful mountain 150 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:06,760 of awards and accolades and a CV that's as long as the Nile. 151 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:12,200 And you're alone because you lost your loved, your loving relationships or you didn't make 152 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,360 the necessary investments. 153 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:19,560 And your kids who got the best education don't even talk to you anymore. 154 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:22,720 And oh, wait a minute, you have grandchildren and you don't know their needs. 155 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,200 And this is so important. 156 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:31,320 And just want to just pause here for a little bit because when we are not making intentional 157 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:38,560 moves, then we do not control the things that we do or we do not control how we move forward. 158 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:43,480 For example, if I'm so focused on my research, I'm like, look, I don't have time to think 159 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,520 about my family right now. 160 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:50,320 What you're doing is neglecting an area that's so important where you could be investing 161 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:58,400 in and you're focusing on an area that ultimately is important, but not more important than 162 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,160 the other things in your life. 163 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,560 And so when you're like, look, kid, when you're five years old, you're five years old now, 164 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:08,240 in five years when I finished my career development award and transitioned to independence, then 165 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:09,240 I can talk to you. 166 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:10,800 I can be your dad. 167 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:12,360 Wrong move. 168 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:16,680 Because the investments you need to have a great relationship with your 12 year old, 169 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:17,680 you make now, right? 170 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:20,120 When you're 12 year old to seven. 171 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,120 Okay. 172 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,640 So please, please, please start with your life plan. 173 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,440 Start with how you're going to enhance your health because that affects everything else 174 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:29,440 you do. 175 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,280 Because the moment you've decided that, Hey, I'm all about advancing my health. 176 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,480 Therefore, I exercise for 30 minutes every day. 177 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,200 It doesn't matter the crisis. 178 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,160 Your exercise is already set. 179 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:41,280 Your exercise habit. 180 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,680 Your exercise plan is already set. 181 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:44,680 Okay. 182 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:48,400 I've said a lot about the life plan and it's, I don't want you to think of it as a daunting, 183 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,660 overwhelming thing, but I want you to think about it as something that helps you set the 184 00:10:52,660 --> 00:10:55,840 stage for your research career. 185 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,520 And it helps you not to burn, burn your life in the process of trying to reach research 186 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:01,520 success. 187 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:02,520 Okay. 188 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:03,520 That's number one. 189 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,520 The next thing I want you to do is just to plan the year. 190 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,120 What do you want to accomplish this year? 191 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:14,460 What are the three things you want to accomplish in your scholarship this year, in your research 192 00:11:14,460 --> 00:11:15,840 this year? 193 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:16,880 What are those three things? 194 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,400 Now don't tell me I want to write three manuscripts. 195 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:21,400 I'm sorry, I'm laughing. 196 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:26,980 The manuscripts are important, but three broad ranging things, right? 197 00:11:26,980 --> 00:11:29,080 What do I want to accomplish in the next year? 198 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:33,860 And so what I want you to do is think about three overarching goals that you want to accomplish 199 00:11:33,860 --> 00:11:34,860 this year. 200 00:11:34,860 --> 00:11:40,080 And maybe that goal is I want to submit my first career development award by the end 201 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:41,080 of the year. 202 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:42,080 Okay. 203 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:43,080 That's one goal. 204 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:48,400 Maybe your second goal is I want to have published this original research that we started doing 205 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,520 last year on X topic. 206 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:51,560 You want to have published it, right? 207 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:52,560 That's the goal. 208 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:55,120 You don't control the publication, but you do control the submission. 209 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:56,120 Okay. 210 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:03,080 And then the third thing you might put on your list is I want to have enhanced my skill 211 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:04,320 in grant writing, right? 212 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:07,240 That kind of goes with the, I want to submit this grant funding. 213 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,200 So anyway, so have a goal for the year. 214 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:14,800 And here are the three general areas in which I recommend that you create a goal. 215 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:15,800 And so three areas. 216 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:20,000 Number one is in what research funding you're going to bring into your program. 217 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Okay. 218 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,920 Like I want to submit for this award, right? 219 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:29,080 And then the second thing I want you to think about is what manuscripts, which original 220 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:33,920 research manuscripts, you can write a lot of case reports, you can write a lot of other 221 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,400 reviews and everything, but I'm asking you to focus just on original research manuscripts, 222 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:43,040 because part of that is building your platform of the scholarly knowledge that you're creating, 223 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:44,040 right? 224 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,280 So what original research manuscripts would you want to accomplish, would you want to 225 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:48,800 publish this year? 226 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,400 And then the third thing is what talks do you want to give? 227 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:57,320 You know, I'm going to have a podcast episode in the future about how to become known for 228 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:58,320 what you do. 229 00:12:58,320 --> 00:12:59,320 Okay. 230 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:00,320 All right. 231 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:01,320 So I'm going to do that. 232 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:06,600 I'm going to preview a speaker who's coming on, who is going to share with us about how 233 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,080 to increase visibility for your research program. 234 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,080 Okay. 235 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,600 I'm getting off that public service announcement. 236 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,280 That's in the process of happening. 237 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:15,280 Okay. 238 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:16,560 So I talked about three goals, right? 239 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:21,000 One goal is a grant writing goal, or it's a proposal development submission goal. 240 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,440 The second is an original manuscript goal. 241 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,640 So please, not just one manuscript, but at least one. 242 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,600 And then the third is a communication goal. 243 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,280 Like where do I want to be a speaker this year? 244 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,320 Like in what areas do I want to communicate my research? 245 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:40,120 Like what are the platforms in which my research is going to be heard about? 246 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:41,120 Okay. 247 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:42,120 So three things. 248 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:43,120 Okay. 249 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,000 Now you have a goal for the year. 250 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,200 Now three things. 251 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,000 It could be more, but usually just keep it short. 252 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,200 And they're big overarching goals. 253 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:51,840 There are going to be many steps to get there. 254 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,680 And now you're going to say, well, in the next three months, which of these three things 255 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:56,040 are we going to accomplish? 256 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:57,040 Okay, great. 257 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,040 In the next three months, you know what? 258 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:00,320 This data has been collected. 259 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,840 It's been sitting there and I have not yet turned it into a research manuscript. 260 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:08,000 In the next three months, I want to submit this manuscript because I'm going to write 261 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,800 this grant later in the year. 262 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,440 I want to have the manuscript already published that's going to support this proposal, right? 263 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,640 So that's what you're going to do in the next three months, in the next quarter. 264 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:17,640 Okay. 265 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,160 So now, so we went from planning your life, number two, we went to planning your year, 266 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,360 number three, we went to planning your quarter. 267 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:27,560 And here's where you bring these big audacious goals that you have for the year and you just 268 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,320 make them more tangible. 269 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,120 Like in the next three months, I want to do these things. 270 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:36,240 I want to submit this original research manuscript for publication. 271 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:37,240 That's one of your goals. 272 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,680 Now, I hope that's not the only goal you have in the next three months, but even if it was, 273 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:42,800 that's a pretty worthy goal, right? 274 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:49,400 And I want to go back actually to the one-year plan because it's like when you go, wait, 275 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,000 this is really helpful, I think. 276 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,920 It's coming together for me and just sharing with you that. 277 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:55,360 Think about your one-year review. 278 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,320 One year from now, you're going to go and maybe for you it's six months, I don't know. 279 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:03,760 But in one year, you're going to have a review with your division chief, department chair, 280 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,240 your dean, whoever you have the review with. 281 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,440 What do you want to say you've done in the year? 282 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,400 That's a starting point for your year, right? 283 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:15,800 And there's some very specific things that you know your chief is going to ask you about. 284 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:17,120 How many manuscripts did you publish? 285 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:18,800 What grants did you submit? 286 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:20,000 Those kinds of things. 287 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:25,480 So in thinking about the plan for the year, what I want you to do is write yourself a 288 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:30,800 mock annual review with your division chief or your department chair. 289 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,760 Now this is, it's not real yet. 290 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:39,200 Write out the list of all the things that you want to say to your department chair, 291 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,200 I have accomplished at the end of this year. 292 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:43,440 That's how you make your one-year goal. 293 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:47,800 I want to say I've submitted three manuscripts for publication or I've published three manuscripts, 294 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:48,800 original research. 295 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:53,600 Or I want to say I've submitted five manuscripts for publication, a mix of original research 296 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:54,600 and other things. 297 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,640 I want to say I've given talks at five institutions. 298 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:58,960 Okay, do you see what I'm saying? 299 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:03,360 So if you are not, like you have no idea what your one-year plan should be, think about 300 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:04,720 your annual review. 301 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,800 What are the things that are expected of you? 302 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,080 Make that your plan. 303 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,480 Say okay, five manuscripts it is, this is what I'm going to accomplish. 304 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,920 Give three talks across different institutions, this is what I'm going to accomplish. 305 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,640 Submit three research grants, this is what I'm going to accomplish. 306 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:19,640 Okay? 307 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,640 Okay, so you know your one-year plan. 308 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:24,040 Now we break it down. 309 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,280 What are you going to accomplish out of that one-year plan? 310 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:28,120 You already have that one-year plan. 311 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,600 So you take that one-year plan and you say which of these goals am I going to do in the 312 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,040 next three months? 313 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:37,320 Now sometimes people will tell you to make these goals realistic. 314 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,160 I'm kind of, I take the other track. 315 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:46,400 I say they don't have to be realistic because sometimes the whole mental energy of trying 316 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,480 to say are these realistic or are these not just takes up a lot of time. 317 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:54,160 You want them to be goals you actually can accomplish, but you know what? 318 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:58,360 You don't have to make them goals that you definitely accomplished because you have a 319 00:16:58,360 --> 00:16:59,360 whole year. 320 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:00,360 You have a long runway. 321 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,760 And so if you say okay, I look at this list of 12 things that I want to accomplish by 322 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,840 the end of the year and I want to try to do five in the first three months, five is a 323 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:12,720 lot, but what you'll do is in making your three-month plan, you're going to prioritize. 324 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:18,640 The most important of my plan is this original research manuscript because it really needs 325 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,800 to come out so I can submit this grant. 326 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,240 That's going to be priority number one. 327 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,840 And then priority number five will be that nice case report of that case you saw in the 328 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:32,120 awards last week that you're like okay, I want this to be one of my publications by 329 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:33,520 the end of the year. 330 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,680 And okay, you want to be able to do it and you want to accomplish it in the next three 331 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,640 months, but it's going to be number five because in the grand scheme of things, the original 332 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,960 research manuscript matters more. 333 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:48,440 And if you get to this case report before, as number five thing of this quarter, that's 334 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,400 great, but if you don't get to it, it's okay too. 335 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,560 Do you see how I'm asking you to think about it? 336 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,880 So I'm asking you to think about it as a priority list, not necessarily like oh my gosh, if 337 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,960 I don't accomplish these three things, it's going to be overwhelming. 338 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:01,280 It's going to be awful. 339 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,640 Just think of it as a hierarchy of I'm going to start with these important things first, 340 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:06,640 right? 341 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,040 Most important things first and then I'll move to the next thing. 342 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,760 So start with the most critical, the things that are most important. 343 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:17,240 If you're trying to decide what are the things that are most important, think about your 344 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:23,560 promotion and tenure requirements and think about what things do people get promoted for. 345 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:27,880 For many institutions, it's your grants, it's your manuscripts that are published. 346 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,120 For many institutions, it's the talks you give, right? 347 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:33,920 Your scientific contribution. 348 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:38,360 Use that as a priority list for what you work on first, okay? 349 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:42,280 Now I do want to point out that as we're making these plans, what I'm not asking you to do 350 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,440 is to plan your clinic. 351 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,640 Your clinic is never going to go away or whatever you do clinically, it doesn't go away. 352 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,240 It's there every week. 353 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,920 Even if you don't plan for it, well, it's going to come and you're going to have to 354 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:54,920 deal with it. 355 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,520 And to be honest, you're a clinician, you've gotten really good at that. 356 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,400 You're like, oh no, no, no, no, no, I need to prep my notes. 357 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:01,400 Okay. 358 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:05,320 But whether or not you plan for it, these notes are happening. 359 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:09,800 So what I want you to focus on in your planning is not the things that are going to happen 360 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:14,560 whether or not you plan, but the things that if you don't plan for, they may not happen. 361 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:15,560 You know? 362 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,120 Like planning for the clinic. 363 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:21,600 If you say, I'm going to show up for a clinic, how about you try not showing up for a clinic? 364 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:26,480 Now, one of the best things to do if you ever get into trouble is to get in trouble on a 365 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:32,960 day in which you have clinic because they will find you. 366 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:37,420 All of a sudden your chief will say, can we send the police out to her house for a wellness 367 00:19:37,420 --> 00:19:41,320 check because clinics started at eight and she has not shown up and it's 1230. 368 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:42,320 Right? 369 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:43,880 Did you see what I'm saying? 370 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,080 Your clinical things have accountability. 371 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,080 Even if you don't plan for them, they're going to happen anyway or someone's coming after 372 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:50,080 you. 373 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:54,440 Your research, your professional development, nobody's asking you. 374 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,360 A year from now, they'll be like, oh, how come you haven't published any papers? 375 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:01,520 That's a year later. 376 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,480 I'm missing one clinic and figuring out when you're going to hear about it. 377 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:05,480 Do you see what I'm saying? 378 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,800 I'm saying the things we're planning are the things for which otherwise we would not have 379 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,280 accountability for. 380 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,080 We're creating the system that helps us give ourselves accountability. 381 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,080 Okay. 382 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,520 So, I've come into the three-month planning. 383 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,120 You're looking at your one year. 384 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:25,000 You're looking at the three most important things you want to accomplish in this quarter 385 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,640 and that's what you're planning. 386 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:27,640 Okay. 387 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,240 Now, let's take one item. 388 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,960 In the next three months, I want to submit this original research manuscript. 389 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,760 Now, remember your goal at the end of 12 months is to publish this research manuscript, but 390 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,480 you do not control the publication. 391 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,240 What you control is your submission. 392 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:48,440 I'm going to talk next week about the things you control and the things you do not control. 393 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,520 You do not control the outcome of publication, but you're going to increase the chances of 394 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:56,780 the outcome by doing the work you do control, submitting. 395 00:20:56,780 --> 00:20:59,800 You control your submission and that's what you're going to work on. 396 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:00,800 Okay. 397 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,200 So, your goal at the end of these three months is not to publish the article that's beyond 398 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:05,440 your control. 399 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,880 Your goal is to submit it. 400 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:11,560 And now, what does it take to submit this original research article? 401 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:16,400 Ah, I'm glad you should ask because I actually kind of have to write the article. 402 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:17,400 Great. 403 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:18,400 Let's put it on there. 404 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:19,400 When are you going to write this article? 405 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,760 When are you going to write the article, right? 406 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,760 I mean, okay, you're going to want to think about that. 407 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,320 But right now in the three-month planning, we're just saying, okay, what needs to happen 408 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,160 for this article to be submitted by the end of these three months? 409 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:31,240 Okay, you got to write it. 410 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:32,240 So write that down. 411 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,080 Well, you know, I can't just write it. 412 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,600 Yeah, I actually need to do the data analysis. 413 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:37,600 Oh, okay. 414 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:38,600 Well, put that on your list. 415 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,880 Well, I can't just do the data analysis. 416 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,560 I actually need to meet with a statistician who's going to do the data analysis. 417 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,120 Okay, put that on the list. 418 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:46,120 Meet with a statistician. 419 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:50,200 Well, the thing about meeting with a statistician is that first of all, you need to clarify 420 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:55,800 that the data collection, what the parameters of the data collection were, or maybe it's 421 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:56,800 a data set. 422 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:57,800 You haven't acquired the data set. 423 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:59,960 I mean, the data is there, but you haven't acquired the data set. 424 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:02,080 Okay, well, put that on the list, right? 425 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:07,400 But you have a list of things that need to be done so that you can submit at the end 426 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:12,400 of this three-month period, you put that all on your list for your next three, your plan 427 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:13,880 for the next three months. 428 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:18,600 And so when you look at each category, the category of submit original research manuscript 429 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:25,000 for publication now has acquire a data set, set up meeting with statistician, meet with 430 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,800 statistician to review data, complete the data analysis, write the first draft of the 431 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:36,040 manuscript, submit, circulate to co-authors and revise and then submit. 432 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:40,160 Do you see there are all these steps to get you to that one beautiful goal of submitting 433 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,080 your research article for publication. 434 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,920 So your goals have babies. 435 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,860 You're going to create the hierarchy of the latter of those goals. 436 00:22:51,860 --> 00:22:55,240 This is the first step and then this is the next step and this is the next step. 437 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,600 So now you have your three-month goals. 438 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:58,640 Okay. 439 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,560 Now we're going to go on to planning your week. 440 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:03,720 Okay. 441 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:04,720 Planning your week. 442 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:11,760 We have a beautiful list of our three-month goals and the babies of each three-month goal. 443 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:17,840 We know the steps that need to be taken to accomplish these three-month goals. 444 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,360 Now I'm going into next week. 445 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:22,040 Today is my data plan. 446 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:23,040 Okay. 447 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:24,640 Let's look ahead to the week. 448 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:30,880 What do I need to do this week that supports my three-month goal? 449 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:35,620 Now remember one of the things I wrote down on my list for this original research manuscript 450 00:23:35,620 --> 00:23:37,960 is acquire the data set. 451 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,040 Okay. 452 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:47,960 This week I'm going to make, send the email to my mentor to ask for the transfer of files 453 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,120 from their computer to my secure server. 454 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:52,120 Okay. 455 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:53,120 Very good. 456 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:55,520 You're going to ask for the transfer. 457 00:23:55,520 --> 00:24:01,120 But wow, it turns out that you actually need to complete a DUA, a data use agreement to 458 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:04,240 be able to request that these files be transferred to you. 459 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:10,400 So what you're going to put on your list for this week is I'm going to write the proposal 460 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,400 or write out the DUA or complete the DUA form. 461 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,200 That's on your list for the week. 462 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,880 Now remember I'm just using the example of the original research manuscript. 463 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:23,120 You're going to have a couple of goals for this particular quarter and you're going to 464 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:24,120 put them down. 465 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:25,120 You're going to put them down. 466 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:27,800 And so you're going to make up a list for your week. 467 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,000 Now here's the thing. 468 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:36,400 Remember we said that this plan does not involve the things for which you already have accountability? 469 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:37,400 Yes. 470 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:42,320 When you go to make your weekly plan, this is where you first of all, the first thing 471 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,800 you do is plan the things that are on your list from your three month goal, which you 472 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,120 got from your one year goals. 473 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:49,440 You're going to write those down. 474 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,000 You're going to embed them into your week. 475 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,200 When is this going to happen? 476 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,560 I'm going to do this thing on Monday morning or maybe you have Monday morning clinic. 477 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,840 You're like, okay, on Tuesday morning, I'm going to do this because my best writing time 478 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:00,840 is on Tuesday morning. 479 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:01,840 Let's do Tuesday morning. 480 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:02,920 I'm going to write this. 481 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,280 It's probably going to be the outline of this request on Tuesday. 482 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,440 And then on Wednesday, I'm going to finalize it. 483 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:12,280 And on Thursday, I'm going to send the email to my research mentor so that they can review 484 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,320 it and then submit. 485 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,120 So you have a plan and you put it out throughout the week. 486 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:19,560 And what's nice is to actually spread it throughout the week. 487 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:24,620 So you're not trying to do it all in your eight hours on Monday because most of us don't 488 00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:28,040 have eight hours of just uninterrupted time. 489 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:35,560 You know that from 8 a.m. to noon on your schedule, nobody interrupts you because you 490 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,040 put a block on your schedule. 491 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,580 Nobody interrupts you because you actually put the block on your schedule. 492 00:25:39,580 --> 00:25:40,580 You close the door. 493 00:25:40,580 --> 00:25:41,580 You're out of the way. 494 00:25:41,580 --> 00:25:44,440 And you're like, okay, in this four hour block, this is what I'm going to do. 495 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:45,920 Most of us don't have the four hour block. 496 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:46,960 Maybe we have an hour block. 497 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,520 In this hour block, I'm going to write for 30 minutes. 498 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:54,500 And so your weekly plan, first of all, should be populated with the things that move you 499 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:58,100 forward based on your three month plan and based on your one year plan. 500 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:03,520 And the one year plan being the things on your review list that your division chief 501 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,920 wants to hear about or your chair wants to hear about. 502 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:06,920 Okay. 503 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,200 The thing you put on your weekly plan, though, is all the other stuff that's on the schedule. 504 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,640 I have clinic on Monday morning. 505 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:12,640 Okay. 506 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:13,960 I'm putting it on my weekly plan. 507 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,280 So I know the first patient. 508 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,360 Oh, first patient is coming in at 830. 509 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:19,160 I want to write by 8 a.m. 510 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,160 That's on the plan. 511 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,880 My daughter has soccer on Tuesday at 6 p.m. 512 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:24,440 You put that on your weekly planning meeting. 513 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:30,120 And by the end of your weekly planning meeting, you have your entire plan for the week, right? 514 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:32,680 Your entire plan for the week. 515 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,880 And you know what meetings you're supposed to be on. 516 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,240 You can reconcile them to your home calendar. 517 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,240 I have three calendars. 518 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,240 I have the home calendar. 519 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:45,760 I have the work calendar and I have the podcasting calendar, right? 520 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:51,560 The people who, you know, when either preparing the podcasts or interviewing for the podcast. 521 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,080 So there are different calendars that you might have to reconcile to say, okay, I need 522 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:59,000 to make sure that I'm here for this meeting and then available to do this meeting. 523 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,800 So reconcile your calendar and make sure that at the end of your weekly planning meeting, 524 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,400 you know exactly what you're going to do with your research and writing and you know all 525 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:12,200 the places you need to be, what meetings you need to be to attend. 526 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,720 Now I've talked a little bit about the weekly planning meeting. 527 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,360 It's one of the episodes from season one. 528 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:17,560 You can go look for it. 529 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,720 If you search our website, clinicianresearcherpodcast.com, you search weekly. 530 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,080 It'll be one of the podcast episodes that comes on. 531 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:29,400 So definitely listen to that episode about how to do the weekly planning meeting. 532 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:30,820 But that's what you do. 533 00:27:30,820 --> 00:27:33,000 So we've talked about, we talked about a couple of things. 534 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,200 Number one, we talked about planning your life. 535 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,280 An important thing. 536 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:41,720 Number two, we've talked about planning your year based on the review that you are going 537 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,800 to do and sit down and do with your division chief. 538 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:50,400 Number three, we've talked about planning your quarter based on the things that are 539 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,140 in your one year plan. 540 00:27:52,140 --> 00:27:55,640 Number four, we have talked about planning your week. 541 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:56,640 Okay. 542 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,700 And then the last thing is planning your day. 543 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:04,000 So you now have the plan for your week and on your week you said Monday morning I'm going 544 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,200 to do my clinic. 545 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,960 And then at the end of the day on Monday I'm going to wrap up my clinic, finish all the 546 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,600 calls and be done. 547 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,480 So Monday morning you wake up, you look at your list, you say, all I have to focus on 548 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,720 today is clinics, notes, patient callbacks. 549 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:17,720 And that's what you do. 550 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,880 Then at the end of the day Monday you look at your plan for the next day and you say, 551 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,880 well, Tuesday morning I plan to do the DUA, but it turns out that my clinical research 552 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,340 coordinator can help me write this piece of it. 553 00:28:27,340 --> 00:28:31,240 So now I'm going to adjust my schedule tomorrow so I can focus on actually drafting the final 554 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:32,240 piece of it. 555 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,720 You know, I'm making this up as I go along. 556 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,600 What I'm saying is that your daily plan is for a daily review, but you're not making 557 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:40,960 a daily plan every day. 558 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,040 You're just tweaking and adjusting to the weekly plan you've already made. 559 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,880 So we talked about planning your life, planning your year, planning your month, I mean planning 560 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:53,960 your quarter, planning your week and planning your day. 561 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,880 Now one of the things I didn't talk about is planning your month. 562 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,920 I started to say that and I remember why I don't necessarily recommend planning the month 563 00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:05,120 because when you're planning a month, you're planning a four week period and four weeks 564 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:10,040 is actually a short time to accomplish goals and you can do that. 565 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,880 So I'm not saying it's a wrong thing to do. 566 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:17,000 I think in my experimentation, it's nice to have an overarching three month goal because 567 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,580 of a little bit of breathing room and then the weekly goal kind of makes it really come 568 00:29:21,580 --> 00:29:22,720 to life. 569 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:27,800 Four weeks feels like a long stretch of time and if you're not careful, you're not necessarily 570 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,440 focused on trying to accomplish the things that you need to within the time frame that 571 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:36,600 you need to and then before you know it, four weeks is gone and maybe anyway, I think you 572 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,160 should experiment with it. 573 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:44,400 And so I think I'm here to say I'm not saying it's not okay to plan monthly. 574 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:49,800 I've succeeded with doing the quarterly planning, taking it into a weekly plan, but you can 575 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,960 try and see what works for you. 576 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,600 And the most important thing is not the plan itself, it's that you are planning because 577 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,400 in planning, you have to think about it. 578 00:29:58,400 --> 00:29:59,400 What is the priority? 579 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:00,920 What do I want to focus on? 580 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:01,920 Why is this important? 581 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:06,120 And that may be the most important thing that you do in your planning. 582 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:07,120 All right. 583 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,640 Now, because you have a community of people and part of your community of people that 584 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:16,440 are in your peer network and people who are coming after you, I want you to share this 585 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,560 podcast episode with one person who's going to benefit from planning. 586 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,600 Now I don't want you to share this episode in judgment saying, well, that person clearly 587 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,320 needs to plan, but just saying, hey, this is an interesting podcast episode. 588 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:31,400 Who else in our network needs to listen to it so that they can enhance their planning 589 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,080 or support somebody else to do that planning? 590 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,080 All right. 591 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:39,800 I'm so excited to have been able to talk to you today and I look forward to talking with 592 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,080 you again on the next episode of the Clinician Researcher podcast. 593 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:45,080 Take care. 594 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:56,840 Thanks for listening to this episode of the Clinician Researcher podcast, where academic 595 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:02,040 clinicians learn the skills to build their own research program, whether or not they 596 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:03,640 have a mentor. 597 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:09,760 If you found the information in this episode to be helpful, don't keep it all to yourself. 598 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,480 Someone else needs to hear it. 599 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,560 So take a minute right now and share it. 600 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:21,000 As you share this episode, you become part of our mission to help launch a new generation 601 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:42,040 of clinician researchers who make transformative discoveries that change the way we do healthcare.