In-training Factors Predictive of Choosing and Sustaining a Productive Academic Career Path in Neurological Surgery

Crowley, R. Webster; Asthagiri, Ashok R.; Starke, Robert M.; Zusman, Edie E.; Chiocca, E. Antonio; Lonser, Russell R.

doi:10.1227/neu.0b013e3182367143

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“…The results presented here appear to contradict previous reports, which noted a strong, and statistically significant relationship between publications during residency and those afterwards [3] and publications during residency and choice of career (academic vs. private practice) [10]. Notably, the r-squared value we observed: 0.005 suggests that only one-half of one percent of variation in post-match publications is explained by application publications.…”

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Can a Resident's Publication Record Predict Fellowship Publications?

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BackgroundInternal medicine fellowship programs have an incentive to select fellows who will ultimately publish. Whether an applicant's publication record predicts long term publishing remains unknown.MethodsUsing records of fellowship bound internal medicine residents, we analyzed whether publications at time of fellowship application predict publications more than 3 years (2 years into fellowship) and up to 7 years after fellowship match. We calculate the sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values and likelihood ratios for every cutoff number of application publications, and plot a receiver operator characteristic curve of this test.ResultsOf 307 fellowship bound residents, 126 (41%) published at least one article 3 to 7 years after matching, and 181 (59%) of residents do not publish in this time period. The area under the receiver operator characteristic curve is 0.59. No cutoff value for application publications possessed adequate test characteristics.ConclusionThe number of publications an applicant has at time of fellowship application is a poor predictor of who publishes in the long term. These findings do not validate the practice of using application publications as a tool for selecting fellows.

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Can a Resident's Publication Record Predict Fellowship Publications?

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“…18,19 Academic productivity of neurosurgical trainees has been cited as one of the most predictive measures of future academic advancement within neurosurgery. 20,26 Daniels et al 27 found that publication count and h-index during residency correlated to an academic career, but not publication The second number is the change in rank. A positive number represents an increase in rank; a negative number a decrease.…”

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“…18,19 Neurosurgical resident publication productivity during training years has been linked with academic positions and future promotions to professorship and chairmanship. 20 Sarkiss et al 19 recently assessed 1352 neurosurgical residents across 105 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) residency programs. They performed a subspecialty analysis and tabulated the number Case reports Uncontrolled case series (>10 patients) Primary research (prospective and retrospective cohort, controlled studies) Case series (less than 10 patients)…”

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An Analysis of Publication Productivity During Residency for 1506 Neurosurgical Residents and 117 Residency Departments in North America

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BACKGROUND:Bibliometrics is defined as the study of statistical and mathematical methods used to quantitatively analyze scientific literature. The application of bibliometrics in neurosurgery continues to evolve. OBJECTIVE: To calculate a number of publication productivity measures for almost all neurosurgical residents and departments within North America. These measures were correlated with survey results on the educational environment within residency programs. METHODS: During May to June 2017, data were collected from departmental websites and Scopus to compose a bibliometric database of neurosurgical residents and residency programs. Data related to authorship value and study content were collected on all articles published by residents. A survey of residency program research and educational environment was administered to program directors and coordinators; results were compared with resident academic productivity. RESULTS:The median number of publications in residency was 3; median h-index and Resident index were 1 and 0.17 during residency, respectively. There was a statistically significant difference in academic productivity among male neurosurgical residents compared with females. The majority of articles published were tier 1 clinical articles. Residency program research support was significantly associated with increased resident productivity (P < .001). Scholarly activity requirements were not associated with increased resident academic productivity. CONCLUSION: This study represents the most comprehensive bibliometric assessment of neurosurgical resident academic productivity during training to date. New benchmarks for individual and department academic productivity are provided. A supportive research environment for neurosurgical residents is associated with increased academic productivity, but a scholarly activity requirement was, surprisingly, not shown to have a positive effect.

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“…Crowley et al used this method for neurosurgeons who graduated from 1985 to 1990 6 and Reed et al analyzed a cohort of 75 physicians at a single institution. 15 Each group reported that female gender negatively correlated with the publication rate.…”

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“…5–11 Investigators in psychiatry, 5 neurosurgery, 6 family medicine, 10 physical therapy 8 and nursing 9 found that women are authoring more papers with time but still publish less than men. In urology the rate of the increase in female authorship has outpaced the number of women in the field overall.…”

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Gender Differences in Academic Productivity and Academic Career Choice Among Urology Residents

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Journal of Urology

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Purpose Gender disparities have long existed in medicine but they have not been well examined in urology. We analyzed a large cohort of graduating urology residents to investigate gender disparities in academic productivity, as measured by peer reviewed publications and academic career choice. Materials and Methods We assembled a list of urology residents who graduated from 2002 through 2008 who were affiliated with the top 50 urology hospitals, as ranked by 2009 U.S. News & World Report. PubMed® was queried to determine the publication output of each resident during the last 3 years of residency. We used an Internet search to determine the fellowship training, career choice and academic rank of each subject. Gender effects on each factor were evaluated. Results A total of 459 male (84.5%) and 84 female (15.5%) residents were included in analysis. During residency women produced fewer total publications (average 3.0 vs 4.8, p = 0.01) and fewer as first author (average 1.8 vs 2.5, p = 0.03) than men. A higher proportion of women than men underwent fellowship training (54.8% vs 48.5%, p =0.29) and ultimately chose an academic career (40.5% vs 33.3%, p = 0.20), although these differences were not statistically significant. Of residents who chose an academic career a higher proportion of men than women (24.7% vs 2.9%, p = 0.01) obtained associate vs assistant professor rank. Conclusions Women produced fewer peer reviewed publications than men during residency but they were equally likely to undergo fellowship training and choose an academic career. During the study period a higher proportion of men achieved associate professor rank.

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In-training Factors Predictive of Choosing and Sustaining a Productive Academic Career Path in Neurological Surgery

Abstract: Defined in-training factors including number of total publications, number of first-author publications, and program size are predictive of residents choosing and succeeding in an academic career path.

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Can a Resident's Publication Record Predict Fellowship Publications?

Can a Resident's Publication Record Predict Fellowship Publications?

An Analysis of Publication Productivity During Residency for 1506 Neurosurgical Residents and 117 Residency Departments in North America

Gender Differences in Academic Productivity and Academic Career Choice Among Urology Residents

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