Implementation of a protocol to increase the academic productivity of cardiothoracic surgery resident physicians.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
; 163(2): 739-745, 2022 Feb.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Academic productivity during cardiothoracic surgery residency training is an important program metric, but is highly variable due to multiple factors. This study evaluated the influence of implementing a protocol to increase resident physicians' academic productivity in cardiac surgery.METHODS:
A comprehensive protocol for cardiac surgery was implemented at our institution that included active pairing of residents with academically productive faculty, regular research meetings, centralized data storage and analysis with a core team of biostatisticians, a formal peer-review protocol for analytic requests, and project prioritization and feedback. We compared cardiothoracic surgery residents' academic productivity before implementation (July 2015-June 2017) versus after implementation (July 2017-June 2019). Academic productivity was measured by peer-reviewed articles, abstract presentations (oral or poster) at national cardiothoracic surgery meetings, and textbook chapters.RESULTS:
Thirty-four resident physicians (from traditional and integrated programs) trained at our institution during the study. A total of 122 peer-reviewed articles were produced over the course of the study 74 (60.7%) cardiac- and 48 (39.3%) thoracic-focused. The number of cardiac-focused resident-produced articles increased from 10 preimplementation to 64 postimplementation (0.61 vs 2.03 articles per resident; P < .01). Abstract oral or poster presentations also increased, from 11 to 40 (0.61 vs 1.33 abstracts per resident; P = .01). Textbook chapters increased from 4 to 15 following the intervention (0.22 vs 0.5 chapters per resident; P = .01).CONCLUSIONS:
Implementation of a dedicated protocol to facilitate faculty mentoring of resident research and streamline the data access, analysis, and publication process substantially improved cardiothoracic surgery residents' academic productivity.Palavras-chave
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01-internacional
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Assunto principal:
Cirurgia Torácica
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Pesquisa Biomédica
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Educação de Pós-Graduação em Medicina
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Cirurgiões
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Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Cardíacos
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Internato e Residência
Tipo de estudo:
Evaluation_studies
Aspecto:
Implementation_research
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Panamá