Most early-career physicians waste months emailing random senior names without confirming whether it fit your needs or not For rotations/electives, use official pathways when required; email should clarify the correct process, not bypass it.
✅ Step-by-step: “Mentor mapping”
✅ Step 1: Build a shortlist of target doctors
Pick 10–25 pioneer clinicians or program directors in your specialty niche.
Where to find names (choose 2–3 sources):
- 📌 Program faculty pages (your target institutions)
- 📌 Recent conference speaker lists in your niche
- 📌 Last-author/senior-author names from guidelines/review articles
- 📌 “Where do trainees like me actually rotate/work?” (ask senior residents/fellows)
✅ Step 2: Search the research rabbit wth the author name and use the map views to reveal the doctor network
Your goal is not “more papers.” Your goal is:
- 📌 Who collaborates with whom?
- 📌 Which clinicians repeatedly appear in the same cluster?
Use these views strategically:
- ✅ Network view: identifies clusters and connected authors
- ✅ Timeline view: shows whether this group is currently active vs historically important
after opening https://app.researchrabbit.ai/
Search with title of article of the author you want to check its network
say we want to map the connections of Dr Carl J Lavie
choose any artcile he authored
Cick on his name
apply the filters to see the authors view
Now You can see the list of the connections to the target doctor
✅ Step 3: Identify 3 tiers of “contact targets” (this is where opportunity usually lives)
Think in tiers:
📌 Tier A (Visible leaders): famous senior names
✅ Tier B (Active builders): mid-career clinician-scientists leading projects
Often the best mentorship.✅ Tier C (Gateway collaborators): frequent co-authors, junior faculty, senior fellows, lab managers
Often the fastest path to joining a project or getting rotation guidance.
✅ Step 4: Reality-check outside ResearchRabbit (avoid false targets)
Before emailing anyone:
- 📌 Confirm role + contact info on the institution site
- 📌 Confirm they actually mentor trainees (lab page, trainees listed, recent projects)