"I was a naïve General Surgery resident who dreamed of getting published in Springer."
I spent months in PubMed Central going through 264 articles on the gallbladder just to find a viable topic. By the time I had one, I realised I was already too late. I had been in the OT for thousands of cases. I just hadn't logged them the way research needs.
So I started over. Excel sheets. Phone photos. Asking juniors and co-residents for help. Setback after setback. Excel is clunky, nobody opens a laptop after a 36-hour shift. No app lets you customise fields for your own research question. Online logbooks need daily guide approval but make it feel like punishment. International logbooks are institution-locked. Nothing converts case data into research parameters cleanly.
I got tired. Now I am in MCh Neurosurgery and I am not making the same mistakes. So I told myself. Fine, I will build it myself.
Logora is what I wished existed when I was a resident. Two-minute case entry. Branch-specific fields you can customise. One-tap export to CSV, PDF and Word. Compliant with the dynamic e-logbook requirement under the latest postgraduate regulations.