Lucas Monteiro DelgadoMD candidate · UFMG, Brazil
Teaching

Teaching and mentorship

The Meta-Analysis Academy is an education company that trains health professionals to design, run and publish their own systematic reviews and meta-analyses. As a Research Mentor, I guide them from the first research question to the submitted manuscript.

Meta-Analysis Academy

Medical research education · Online · Jun 2025 to present
  1. Research MentorJun 2025 to present
    • Mentored nine researchers from seven countries, from an undergraduate to practicing surgeons (plastic, spine and vascular surgery, ophthalmology, internal medicine); four currently.
    • Weekly one-on-one meetings, advancing each project at the mentee's own pace and goals, from research question and PROSPERO protocol to analysis and manuscript. I review every step.
    • Occasional talks to the Academy on research topics. Most recent: The Road to Publishing in JAMA Surgery as First Author.
    • Mentored by Rhanderson Cardoso, MD.
  2. Teaching AssistantJun 2025 to Mar 2026
    • Teaching Assistant for cohorts 7 and 8.
    • Weekly Saturday sessions on students' questions about the course content, in English and Portuguese.
    • Shadowed a mentor in parallel; evaluated and promoted to Research Mentor in March 2026.
  3. Tutor and Judge · Medical Research Hackathon 20262026
    • International, online hackathon in which medical students and physicians build research questions from scratch.
    • Led five research groups through a two-day sprint, with a dedicated 40-minute Zoom session per group to refine their idea and keep the team on schedule.
    • On the final day, scored the submitted research ideas and wrote personalized feedback for each one following the Academy's methodology.

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  4. Tutor and Judge · International Publication Bootcamp 20262026
    • Brazilian, Portuguese-language edition of the Medical Research Hackathon (Bootcamp Publicação Internacional), in which student teams turn a clinical question into a review aimed at international publication.
    • Led research groups through a two-day sprint, with a dedicated Zoom session per group to refine their idea and keep the team on schedule.
    • On the final day, scored the submitted research ideas and wrote personalized feedback for each one following the Academy's methodology.

    Academy's post ↗

  5. Tutor and Judge · Medical Research Hackathon 20252025
    • International, online hackathon in which medical students and physicians build research questions from scratch; my first edition as a tutor.
    • Led research groups through a two-day sprint, with a dedicated Zoom session per group to refine their idea and keep the team on schedule.
    • On the final day, scored the submitted research ideas and wrote personalized feedback for each one following the Academy's methodology.

    Academy's post ↗