Background: The competency-based Fellowship Program (CBFP) of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists includes a scholarly project as a mandatory training requirement. However, this training requirement often needs to be met in the context of having little time or money as a registrar.

Objectives: To share ideas and experiences that may be useful in guiding registrars through the research requirement of training and beyond.

Methods: In this presentation, different and creative ways in which ‘research’ can be incorporated into psychiatry training are explored. This is done through both personal and shared experiences with registrar and junior consultant colleagues.

Findings: There are many ways in which clinical curiosity can be transformed into research output.

Conclusions: Research within training can be very useful in terms of both training progression and professional development.