5. Contribute to aggregate research projects. Although fewer surgeons are formally conducting research, if you’re a practicing surgeon, Dr. Meyers said there are plenty of opportunities to contribute to aggregate projects. For example, for a surgical quality outcomes study you could contribute data to a bigger project to see if a certain procedure or intervention has value. “More specialty societies are engaging members to contribute their clinical data,” he said. “In a sense, you are participating in large aggregate databases that are used to generate outcomes.”—KA
