Looking for research collaboration

Hi,

I'm expected to be involved in research during my orthopedic residency but am involved in a program that's so operation heavy that I really dont have all that much time to singlehandely implement a decent project.

I was therefore looking for a few other residents who'd be interested in doing a collaborative study - i.e pool patient numbers, divide up the work etc.

As I'm in Australia and the majority of you guys on here are from the US there'd even be the possibility to frame this as a grand international collaboration.

Our two programs probably use different prostheses, have different protocols, have different patient populations etc etc - so I'm sure there is some easy collaborative comparison type project that we could do?

Cheers.

oh ! is this only a "first world " initiative and collaboration ?