{"id":1035,"date":"2015-01-13T21:46:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2015-01-13T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T16:48:44","slug":"networking-in-academia-where-will-it-take-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2015\/01\/13\/networking-in-academia-where-will-it-take-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Networking in academia, where will it take you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Default\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: #252525\">&#8220;Without Fleming, no Chain; without Chain, no Florey; without Florey, no Heatley; without Heatley, no penicillin.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 120%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 120%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ask people about the discovery of penicillin and the majority picture <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Fleming\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">Alexander Fleming<\/span><\/a> making his momentous breakthrough alone, in his laboratory with only a petri dish of mould for company. The reality of course was much much complex and it was only through collaboration and networking that penicillin could be brought to the bedside where it could benefit patients directly. Indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Harris_(scientist)\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">Sir Henry Harris<\/span><\/a>, when giving his view on the discovery of penicillin, perhaps put it most eloquently with the quote above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 120%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 120%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">So what is networking and how can it benefit paediatricians in academia? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 120%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Networking can be defined as the use of both formal and informal connections between groups of colleagues to help develop and progress your career. It can be as simple as asking a senior clinician for advice about a patient to something as complex as conducting research on separate sites which will ultimately lead to a joint publication.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 120%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 120%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">There are several ways in which paediatricians can network. Talking to colleagues with similar interests is perhaps the simplest way to start. The value of social media cannot be underestimated and the way in which scientists use social media for academic purposes was recently featured in an issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/online-collaboration-scientists-and-the-social-network-1.15711\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">Nature<\/span><\/a>. Perhaps though, there is no substitute for face-to-face meetings and academic conferences certainly have their place. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 120%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 120%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Academic conferences offer the opportunity to meet other people in your field, discuss and generate research proposals and enable that fantastic idea to reach its full potential. We are organising the annual Academic Paediatric Association conference, being held on March 26th\/27th in Leeds which will bring academic paediatricians from all around the country together for two days. Why not start your networking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/apa-conference-2015-tickets-14040819469\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">here<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/davidking83\">David King<\/a> &amp; William Daw<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Without Fleming, no Chain; without Chain, no Florey; without Florey, no Heatley; without Heatley, no penicillin.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 Ask people about the discovery of penicillin and the majority picture Alexander Fleming making his momentous breakthrough alone, in his laboratory with only a petri dish of mould for company. 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