For MDs and clinical researchers ready to invest five hours a week, personally guided by Prof Stuckler.
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Apply to work with Prof Stuckler →Every clinician we work with comes in with a version of the same story. Clinical observations, audits, case data, ideas. None of it on paper. None of it published. The bottleneck isn't ability. It's structure and time.
You see patients all day. There is no free nine-to-five to learn academic writing.
You started a paper before. It stalled. Or it got rejected. You moved on.
Your notebook is full of clinical observations that never became publications.
You need papers for promotion or fellowship. The methodology gap feels insurmountable.
The FastTrack Method is a four-step roadmap. Topic. Search. Analysis. Submission. Each step has a specific framework that compresses months of self-teaching into hours of structured work, so five hours a week is enough.
How to choose a publishable topic in 30 minutes, not 30 days. We map your clinical questions against three filters: your passion, project feasibility, and live academic debate. The output is a topic editors are actively looking for.
How to run a complete literature review in days, not months. A structured search protocol that surfaces the right 30 papers, not the wrong 3,000. No more drowning in PubMed.
How to position your findings where journal editors are already looking. The framing technique that turns rejected papers into accepted ones, without changing the underlying work.
How to submit, respond to reviewers, and revise without years of trial and error. The exact protocol used by published FastTrack clinicians to land in high-impact journals.
"It is a dream come true. I would not have been able to do this without this program."
Six years into practising hospice and palliative care medicine, Vineetha had always carried a dream of publishing a paper, one she had never been able to act on during training. She found FastTrack, and her systematic review on buprenorphine in palliative care was accepted in a top-tier journal in her field. Beyond the publication, she now reads scientific papers differently. "A whole new lens through which to see the world, to practise medicine, to interpret evidence."
"I had little experience publishing as a first author. I wasn't expecting that I would publish three articles within that time. Then I got admitted to the doctoral programs I most wanted, with funding."
An accomplished physician with military experience, but no first-author publications. He came in with no clear research topic. Through FastTrack he focused on the intersection of his passion (migrants, equity), feasibility (rapid COVID literature), and live academic debate (vaccine inequities). He published a systematic review as first author plus two co-authored papers, leading to funded admission at Johns Hopkins, Berkeley and Boston University, with Harvard on waitlist.
"I think it's the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to me in my thesis."
A practising clinician working on her postgraduate thesis with no prior journal publications. FastTrack took her from a standing start through her first systematic review, published in BMC Medical Education. "It's tailored to your needs. What level you're on. So it's suitable for each and everyone."
Tenured professor and one of the most cited researchers in social epidemiology. His papers in Nature, The Lancet, British Medical Journal, PLoS Medicine, and PNAS have shaped policy across health crises, austerity, and global health.
He personally reviews every clinician application before the call.
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Five hours a week. 419 clinicians have done it. The Method exists because no clinician has 40 hours to spare. You batch work in focused 90-minute blocks, two or three a week. The structure makes the time efficient.
You already are a researcher. You observe patterns daily. The Method teaches you to convert clinical observations into the structured arguments journals publish. Most of our clinicians had zero academic publications when they started.
Most clinician rejections aren't about the work. They're about topic positioning and journal fit. We rebuild the paper from the topic level, so it lands where editors are actively looking. Rejection is usually a precision problem, not a quality problem.
The Method is specialty-agnostic. Our clinicians publish across palliative care, public health, paediatrics, surgery, psychiatry, oncology, primary care, and beyond. The framework is identical. The application is yours.
If you complete the program and apply the Method as prescribed at five hours a week, you finish your next paper inside 90 days. If you don't, we keep working with you until you do. We only accept clinicians we believe we can get to publication.
The Inner Circle is a serious investment, reserved for clinicians ready to commit. We discuss pricing on the application call after confirming the fit. If you are not in a position to invest at that level, you are likely not the right fit for this program.
If you are a clinician with five hours a week and a paper waiting to be written, this is the path. Prof Stuckler personally reviews every application.
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