On Saturday 31 October we run a free live session for working doctors who have the data but keep starting and stopping. You leave knowing exactly where your own project is stuck.
It is the same session that opens Publication Accelerator, the six week programme that ends with a submitted manuscript. The session is free, it runs once, and it is live.
The room is kept small on purpose, so there is time to answer questions. Register and we will send you the joining link straight away, with a calendar invite that lands at the right time wherever you are.
Saturday 31 October, 5pm UK time. The questions below take a minute, and they are the reason the session is worth your Saturday. They tell us what the room is actually stuck on, so the session is built around real situations rather than guesses.
We collect the data and never analyse it. We open the draft on a night shift and never open it again. We watch a colleague with less clinical experience get the post, because their name is on four papers and ours is on none.
It was never about intelligence or effort. Nobody ever structured the work, and nobody ever checked whether we did it.
What we cover
Most of us recognise ourselves in at least three of these. None of them are about intelligence or effort. In the session we walk through what is really going wrong, and what to do instead.
The decision that sinks a paper is made in week one. The symptoms do not appear until month four, deep into data collection, when the time is already spent. There is a way to know which ideas are worth your weekends before you commit to any of them.
A strong clinical hunch and a publishable research question look almost identical on paper. They are not the same thing, and the gap between them is where most projects quietly stall. The structure that closes that gap is simple, once someone shows it to you.
Introduction, methods, results, discussion. The order we were taught to read a paper is the order that makes writing one take months. Clinicians who reach submission fast use a very different sequence, and it sits at the heart of our method.
Picking the journal after the paper is written is one of the most common reasons for a desk rejection. The doctors who get accepted make that decision before they write a single word. It quietly changes everything that comes before it.
"I will do it at the weekend" is how research quietly dies. Four protected hours a week will take you further than ten scattered ones. The protecting is the part almost everyone gets wrong, and it has far less to do with willpower than you would expect.
Here is the part most of us miss. These are not five separate problems. They are five symptoms of one missing thing, which is a system. In the live session we connect all five into a single method, the one behind Publication Accelerator, and show how it carries a clinician from idea to submission.
The outcome
Your Host
A clinician who has lived the gap between clinical work and a submitted manuscript, and built a clear way across it.
Founder & Host
In the free live session
The dates
Everything between today and the next cohort, in order. Nothing hidden, and nothing you have to decide on the day.
It takes a minute. Add your WhatsApp number if you want a reminder before we start, and that is the only thing we will use it for.
You do not have to wait until 31 October to start. Seven short episodes take one project from data in a folder to a submitted manuscript, one stage a week. See the research pipeline, or take the two free tools further down this page.
We work through the five reasons clinical work never reaches a journal. Partway through, you name your own slowest stage, the single place your project actually stops. Most of us have never named it out loud before.
Then a live Q&A. It is free, it runs once, and the room is kept small so questions get answered.
Knowing where you are stuck is not the same as knowing what to do about it. That depends on your data, your stage, and your deadline, and it cannot be answered from a slide. On the call we look at all three, and you leave with a plan whether or not you ever work with us.
You do not have to wait for 31 October. A small number of slots open each week on Zoom, and they move around with the clinical rota. Book a diagnostic call. If it is not right for you, we will say so on the call.
Six weeks, one stage a week, four hours of your time a week. Twenty four hours in total, and you know that number before you start rather than after. Three seats only, because the written feedback between calls is done by hand.
You will have your manuscript submitted to a journal within six weeks. If you complete every assigned piece on time and attend every check in, and it is not submitted, we keep working with you at no extra cost until it is.
Nobody is asked to buy anything on 31 October. The session teaches, the call comes after it, and the programme starts in the new year.
Free, before the session
You do not have to wait until 31 October to start. These are the same two tools we hand every doctor on day one. Free to download, no call required.
Most of us were taught to write a paper in the order we read one. Introduction first, abstract last. That order is exactly why drafting drags on for months. This is the reverse sequence working clinicians use, where each stage of your project quietly writes a different section of the paper, long before you sit down to "write it up".
Before the first incision, we brief the theatre list. The same discipline tells you whether a research idea is worth your weekends, long before you consent a single patient. This is the short checklist we run on every idea to catch the ones that will quietly stall, before you spend any time on them.
Common questions
Saturday 31 October, 5pm UK time. It runs live, once. When you register we send you the joining link, the meeting ID and the passcode straight away, along with a calendar invite so the time lands correctly wherever you are.
Plan to be there live. The session is built around the questions in the room, and half of what makes it useful is naming your own slowest stage while everyone else is doing the same. Register anyway if the time is difficult, and we will tell you what your options are closer to the day.
No. At the end there is an offer of a free 30 minute call for anyone who wants to look at their own project properly. Nothing is bought or decided on the day, and the six week programme itself does not start until January.
Yes, completely free. At the end there is an optional next step for anyone who wants hands on help with their own project. Everything taught in the session is yours to use whether you take that step or not.
Not yet. This is built for working doctors who already have clinical data in hand and keep starting and stopping. Job titles vary too much between countries to be useful here, so we go by the situation instead. If you are earlier than that, most of the session will be premature, and the two free resources above will serve you better.
Most of us have more publishable material than we realise. Case series, audits, clinical observations, registry access. The first reason we cover is exactly this, finding what is already in front of you.
It is not for medical students. It is not for interns or foundation doctors. It is not for anyone who has no data yet, and it is not for anyone who cannot protect four hours a week for six weeks. It is also not for anyone who wants a paper written for them. If that is where you are right now, the two free resources above will serve you better than the programme.
Yes. We keep a small number of free 30 minute diagnostic calls open each week. We look at where your project is actually stuck, and you leave with a clear next step. The open times are on the booking page, and they move around with the clinical rota. Book a diagnostic call.
Saturday 31 October · 5pm UK time
The live session is free, it runs once, and it is for working doctors who already have the data. Register now and the date is yours.
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