Obesity Research

[alphaholic06]

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I've lurked in this forum for a while. Thought I finally post. I'm an M1 who is interested in Emergency Medicine. I'm also interested in pursuing research related to obesity. I was wondering if pursuing this type of research is possible in EM, and if so how one would integrate it into residency, and practice. Thanks in advance.

 

[zinjanthropus]

I've lurked in this forum for a while. Thought I finally post. I'm an M1 who is interested in Emergency Medicine. I'm also interested in pursuing research related to obesity. I was wondering if pursuing this type of research is possible in EM, and if so how one would integrate it into residency, and practice. Thanks in advance.

pursuing any type of research is essentially possible

in residency you are required to do a research project

in practice you may have time in your contract for research/teaching activity if you are in academics

 

[dchristismi]

Sure it's possible - just study it in the ED population. I had an abstract accepted regarding pediatric obesity by surveying parental knowledge and attitudes about nutrition.

 

[pseudoknot]

I've lurked in this forum for a while. Thought I finally post. I'm an M1 who is interested in Emergency Medicine. I'm also interested in pursuing research related to obesity. I was wondering if pursuing this type of research is possible in EM, and if so how one would integrate it into residency, and practice. Thanks in advance.

I'm curious, are you talking about a clinical or basic project?

 

[alphaholic06]

I'm curious, are you talking about a clinical or basic project?

It's clinical research.

 

[deleted77919]

Just do an RCT where you put half the individuals on a 6,000 calorie/day diet and examine usage trends in the ED vs placebo (just need to figure out a way to make people think they are eating 6,000 calories instead of 2,000). I'm sure it'll breeze by the IRB.

 

[alphaholic06]

Just do an RCT where you put half the individuals on a 6,000 calorie/day diet and examine usage trends in the ED vs placebo (just need to figure out a way to make people think they are eating 6,000 calories instead of 2,000). I'm sure it'll breeze by the IRB.

I plan to use a much lower caloric intake than that.😎

 

[WallowaWanderer]

Obesity really is a chronic problem . . . and as such it seems like it would be best treated and studied by internists and endocrinologists. I guess you could focus your research on how obesity affects the management and treatment of people with acute problems. I think it also depends on what kind of research you want to do. If you are thinking about clinical studies where you are trying to see if an intervention will help people lose weight then I think that really is IM. But if you are thinking about cellular level basic science research, then that doesn't really "fit" within any particular specialties' domain, and maybe you could be one of those people who does 1/2 time ED and 1/2 time basic science research. I think you should ask yourself, "if I had to do one or the other," and of the answer is EM then do EM and the research will figure itself out. If the answer is obesity research then I think you should look strongly at IM.

 

[zinjanthropus]

Obesity really is a chronic problem . . . and as such it seems like it would be best treated and studied by internists and endocrinologists. I guess you could focus your research on how obesity affects the management and treatment of people with acute problems. I think it also depends on what kind of research you want to do. If you are thinking about clinical studies where you are trying to see if an intervention will help people lose weight then I think that really is IM. But if you are thinking about cellular level basic science research, then that doesn't really "fit" within any particular specialties' domain, and maybe you could be one of those people who does 1/2 time ED and 1/2 time basic science research. I think you should ask yourself, "if I had to do one or the other," and of the answer is EM then do EM and the research will figure itself out. If the answer is obesity research then I think you should look strongly at IM.

Maybe - but I think the strength of this field is that many things fall under the umbrella of EM. I don't think there is any problem with looking at chronic disease since those chronic diseases certainly lead to risk factors for pt visits to the ED. Plus, another strength is that good academic ED physicians are skilled at thinking outside the box.

 

[alphaholic06]

Maybe - but I think the strength of this field is that many things fall under the umbrella of EM. I don't think there is any problem with looking at chronic disease since those chronic diseases certainly lead to risk factors for pt visits to the ED. Plus, another strength is that good academic ED physicians are skilled at thinking outside the box.

I was thinking along these lines.