Good Research Begins in the Days of Postgraduate Training!

In our country, the culture of good quality research in all subjects, whether at the level of postgraduate thesis, initiative from faculties, or intramural and extramural projects, has been prevalent at Institutes of National Importance (INI) over the last few decades.These efforts also led to publications in national and international journals of repute.This applies to all subjects, including psychiatry.However, non-INI institutes cut a sorry figure in this area for various reasons, including a greater priority on clinical and administrative work, poor orientation and training in research methodology, less time for supervision, and more time devoted to private practice.1 The lion's share of manuscripts that are submitted to journals from these institutes is derived from postgraduate theses, and this is often the root cause of poor-quality research.A postgraduate trainee is practically a novice in research methodology and is forced to go by the protocol thrust upon him by the faculty or seniors, many of whom are not properly trained in research.Despite the sincere efforts of the trainees, the basic methodological shortcomings of these papers can never be overcome, no matter how sincerely the rest of the paper is executed.Oftentimes, the topics chosen for theses lack novelty and are repetitive in nature.As a result, papers derived from them are often rejected by high-quality journals and either