• Tahir Khaleeq, Rakan Kabariti, and Usman Ahmed.
• Tahir Khaleeq, MBBS, MRCSEd, Pg Dip MedEd Trauma & Orthopaedic Department, Princess Royal Hospital, Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust, Telford, United Kingdom.
• Pak J Med Sci. 2023 May 1; 39 (3): 769774769-774.

Background And ObjectiveA significant increase has been observed globally in multi-centre trainee-led trauma & orthopaedic (T&O) research collaborative projects with more emphasis have been on tackling important research questions since the start of the COCID-19 pandemic. The objective of our analysis was to determine the number of trainee-led research collaborative projects in T&O in the United Kingdom that were started during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsA retrospective analysis was conducted to determine how many trainee-led national collaborative projects in T&O were conducted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown (March 2020 to June 2021) and the number of projects identified were compared to the previous year (2019). Any regional collaborative projects, projects that were started before the onset of COVID and projects of other surgical specialities were not included in the study.ResultsThere were no projects identified in 2019 while in the Covid pandemic lockdown we identified 10 trainee-led collaborative trauma & orthopaedic projects with six of them being published with level of evidence from three to four.ConclusionCovid was unprecedented and has placed considerable trials across healthcare. Our study highlights an increase in multi-centre trainee-led collaborative projects within the UK and it underlines the feasibility of such projects especially with the advent of social media and Redcap® which facilitate recruitment of new studies and data.Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences.

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