We train international medical graduates, residents, fellows, and attendings to design, run, and publish systematic reviews and meta-analyses — guided by mentors who are still in the literature themselves, co-authoring alongside you from idea to submission.
PIMG Research Academy exists to build an inclusive, collaborative, mentorship-driven environment where healthcare professionals and students get the tools, structure, and accountability to carry out responsible, high-impact research — regardless of where they trained or where they're based.
We're building a diverse, international network of physicians united by evidence-based practice, ethical conduct, and interdisciplinary collaboration — proving that rigorous, publishable research can start anywhere, on any schedule, with the right mentorship.
Talk to enough residents and international medical graduates, and the same six blockers come up — every time.
Clinical duties leave little room for structured academic work — research becomes the thing you'll "start after this rotation."
Without an experienced PI to push back on your idea, even a strong question stalls at the protocol stage.
Generating a question is easy. Turning it into a registered, publishable protocol is a different skill entirely.
Choosing the right model — let alone running it in R — is where most self-taught efforts quietly stop.
Drafts sit half-finished, or come back from reviewers with comments nobody on the team knows how to answer.
Working alone means no one to troubleshoot with, co-author with, or hold you accountable to actually submit.
Every track moves from idea generation to submission. Choose the depth that matches where you are — and the PIMG member price applies to all of them.
A complete foundation in research methodology — from PICOTS and protocol registration to risk-of-bias, GRADE, scientific writing, and the submission process.
A hands-on path from raw data to forest plots, GRADE tables, and a reproducible R pipeline — built for clinicians with little or no coding background.
The complete pipeline — generate your own idea, register the protocol, run the analysis in R, and submit the manuscript, with one mentor team across both courses.
Expand a track to see the module breakdown.
12 sections, from your first research question to a submitted manuscript.
7 modules, from installing R to a fully reproducible meta-analysis pipeline.
PIMG Research Academy is led by its co-founders, who mentor every cohort directly and remain active co-authors on the projects that come out of it.
Incoming Internal Medicine resident (PGY-1, July 2026) and co-founder of PIMG Research Academy. Author or co-author of 60+ peer-reviewed papers spanning gastroenterology, hepatology, interventional endoscopy, and cardiovascular medicine. Leads protocol design and manuscript mentorship for the Internal Medicine track.
Co-founder of PIMG Research Academy and a recurring co-author across the Academy's surgical and procedural research lines. Leads mentorship for participants pursuing surgical and procedural specialties, with a focus on protocol feasibility and team coordination.
A snapshot of the research our community has produced — Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and beyond.
Mentees from across the world on what changed once they had structure, mentorship, and a team.
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Cohorts are organized by specialty track — Internal Medicine and Surgical — and capped at 30 participants. Tell us about your background and goals, and a mentor will follow up.