Filmed at the 2019 AATS Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, Mara Antonoff of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA, moderates a discussion on dedicated research time for residents interested in cardiothoracic surgery. She is joined by Kyla Joubert of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania, USA, David Nelson of Loma Linda University in California, USA, Erin Corsini of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, and Kyle Mitchell of the University of Texas in Houston. They address the benefits of focusing on research, ways to make the most of one's experience, and strategies for making one's research time as productive as possible.
