1. Residents
Prospective
Husam AL-Rumaih, MD

2. MINT Trial
M.I.P.O. vs Intramedullary Nailing in
Fractured Tibias, A Randomized Clinical
What Happened in between?
Trial
Planning Started 2008
IRB Approval JAN, 2011
Grant Received March, 2011

3. MINT Trial
Mentors
WWW: Social Networks
Email
Khan : http://www.khanacademy.org
Youtube
Some Books

6. MINT Trial
Email Group
Discussions

8. Youtube ®

10. Lack Of Physical Mentorship
The Proposal was revised 24 times
took three years to finish

11. Clinical Trial Obstacles
Clinical Trials are complex and expensive
Inadequate Training for Clinician-Scientists
Lack of support
Clinical Demands
•JBJS Am. 2008 Aug;90(8):1769-76
•Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2006 Aug;449:67-71

12. The Need of the Clinician-
Scientist Breed
There number is declining
0.4% (Orthopaedic surgeons) in the States
JBJS Am. 2008 Aug;90(8):1794-9

13. The Endangered Species
Acad Med. 2006 Feb;81(2):107-12

14. Clinician-Scientist
Identify them
Recruit them
Retain them
Development of MD-Ph.D programs
•JBJS Am. 2008 Aug;90(8):1794-9
•Acad Med. 2006 Feb;81(2):107-12

15. Clinician-Scientist
Are there enough interested students to
make this effort worthwhile?
Do the ones interested in orthopedics want
to be clinician-scientists?
Whom and when should we target?