Career Research Productivity Correlates With Medical School Ranking Among Cardiothoracic Surgeons.
J Surg Res
; 264: 99-106, 2021 08.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The foundation for a successful academic surgical career begins in medical school. We examined whether attending a top-ranked medical school is correlated with enhanced research productivity and faster career advancement among academic cardiothoracic (CT) surgeons. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
Research profiles and professional histories were obtained from publicly available sources for all CT surgery faculty at accredited US CT surgery teaching hospitals in 2018 (n = 992). We focused on surgeons who completed medical school in the United States during or after 1990, the first-year US News & World Report released its annual medical school research rankings (n = 451). Subanalyses focused on surgeons who completed a research fellowship (n = 299) and those who did not (n = 152).RESULTS:
A total of 124 surgeons (27.5%) attended a US News & World Report top 10 medical school, whereas 327 (72.5%) did not. Surgeons who studied at a top 10 medical school published more articles per year as an attending surgeon (3.2 versus 1.9; P < 0.0001), leading to more total publications (51.5 versus 27.0; P < 0.0001) and a higher H-index (16.0 versus 11.0; P < 0.0001) over a similar career duration (11.0 versus 10.0 y; P = 0.1294). These differences in career-long research productivity were statistically significant regardless of whether the surgeons completed a research fellowship or not. The surgeons in both groups, however, required a similar number of years to reach associate professor rank (P = 0.6993) and full professor rank (P = 0.7811) after starting their first attending job.CONCLUSIONS:
Attending a top-ranked medical school is associated with enhanced future research productivity but not with faster career advancement in academic CT surgery.Palabras clave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Facultades de Medicina
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Cirugía Torácica
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Investigación Biomédica
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Cirujanos
Límite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Surg Res
Año:
2021
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Article