Abstract

Dear MOA Members, e entire editorial board of Journal of Orthoapedics and Trauma Surgery is excited to share information about this new initiative of MOA Virtual Research Cell. is initative as on the agenda of our MOA president and has been initiated on 15th August 2018. e aim of this research cell is simple, it will provide support to all MOA Members in terms of conducting research and writing papers e editorial board had multiple discussions amongst us and almost everyone was worried on declining quality of submissions that we are receiving. We also discussed ways to improve this situation, by conducting workshops for research. One of the ideas was the faculty training program where a research paper writing module was also included. e other idea from our president Dr Parag Sancheti was the formation of MOA Virtual Research Cell. Since the presidential theme is use of Technology for Orthopaedic Excellence, this will be the best way to use technology to help us in Research. Under the MOA Research Cell following activities are envisioned - MOA Webinars on Research Topics - a Telegram group where all the interested MOA members can join. We will also include all past and present authors of articles in JTOS in telegram group - Providng reading material regarding research in the group - Discussion of Research related topics in the group - Provide support for article writing and review before submiing to JTOS Also Research workshops and Faculty training workshops will also be utilised to improve the research education in the state Hopefully this will impact the quality of paers submied to JTOS and helps the journal grow in quality to

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