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Just started fellowship this month and am starting out on a research year. Primarily clinical. My PD tasked me with coming up with ideas to start working on. Had my first meeting earlier this week and am having some issues.
I have some research interests prior to coming into fellowship and have shaped my ideas based on that. I came to my PD and the senior fellow with a fair amount of ideas. I had done prior legwork (literature search, writing up a brief background/mini proposals) and I kept getting shot down, which is fine. Some of the ideas were too ambitious and couldn't be done during fellowship or the resources weren't available. I don't have a problem with that.
My other ideas were getting shot down because the PD or the other fellow were saying they already had thought of doing that but they saw there were already abstracts/papers published on it, which is news to me as I didn't find any strikingly similar papers to the questions I was asking. When I asked for the specific citations they don't have them and don't have any details. One of my research ideas they swore they saw last year at our annual clinical conference and had me look for it in the journal supplement. I searched through the abstract supplement very closely and didn't find anything remotely similar to what I was asking.
What is bothering me is that the majority of ideas/questions I am coming up with they are indicating that they have either already thought of doing or that they are already done. I'm not a genius or anything and am not trying to make some game changing research but I am doing my due diligence and doing a reasonable literature search and shaping my questions so they different than what is already out there.
I don't want to come off as being difficult to work with but this is starting to decrease my enjoyment of my research year. I had good experiences with research in med school and residency so I have a basic grasp of the process.
I have some research interests prior to coming into fellowship and have shaped my ideas based on that. I came to my PD and the senior fellow with a fair amount of ideas. I had done prior legwork (literature search, writing up a brief background/mini proposals) and I kept getting shot down, which is fine. Some of the ideas were too ambitious and couldn't be done during fellowship or the resources weren't available. I don't have a problem with that.
My other ideas were getting shot down because the PD or the other fellow were saying they already had thought of doing that but they saw there were already abstracts/papers published on it, which is news to me as I didn't find any strikingly similar papers to the questions I was asking. When I asked for the specific citations they don't have them and don't have any details. One of my research ideas they swore they saw last year at our annual clinical conference and had me look for it in the journal supplement. I searched through the abstract supplement very closely and didn't find anything remotely similar to what I was asking.
What is bothering me is that the majority of ideas/questions I am coming up with they are indicating that they have either already thought of doing or that they are already done. I'm not a genius or anything and am not trying to make some game changing research but I am doing my due diligence and doing a reasonable literature search and shaping my questions so they different than what is already out there.
I don't want to come off as being difficult to work with but this is starting to decrease my enjoyment of my research year. I had good experiences with research in med school and residency so I have a basic grasp of the process.
