Surgical research in the public hospital

Zargar‐Shoshtari, Kamran; Hill, Andrew

doi:10.1111/ans.13975

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“…These were selected due to the availability of data and because they are widely accepted measures of academic output [9]. The most effective way to assess the academic contribution of a surgical department is complex and debatable depending on the focus of the review with different metrics utilised to emphasise different levels of success [6,9,10]. Certainly the metrics chosen for this evaluation could be viewed as a rather narrow measure of surgical research and may have missed a number of critical components of a department's research, such as innovation, research impact or embedding research into clinical programs [9], which has been a priority of the Institute.…”

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“…Having now been in place for six years, it is timely to evaluate the early results of this model, to guide it's further development and to inform other institutions which may be considering how best to support academic surgery [6]. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the model by investigating the change in surgical research activities and availability of dedicated research resources that has taken place during this time.…”

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Early Results for Enhancing Surgical Research at the Teaching Hospital Level

2021

J Surg

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Surgeons face many obstacles in undertaking research. A consistent recommendation for enhancing academic pursuits has been the provision of strong institutional support. This approach was taken in establishing a novel surgical academic institute based at a tertiary level hospital in Sydney, Australia in 2014. Having been operational for six years, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the model by measuring changes in surgical research activity and support within 16 surgical departments during this time. The main outcomes measured included (i) Research Activities and the availability of (ii) Research Resources. Through an audit, it was found a total of 1037 unique journal articles were published with the annual output presenting a positive trend. From its introduction in 2015, 140 new REDCap research databases were created, showing a linear increase. There was also a significant increase in Higher Research Degree students supervised between 2017 and 2019 (p=0.001). The availability of research resources across the 16 surgical departments increased by 21% (p<0.001). Overall, the implementation of a novel surgical academic institute has demonstrated promising trends in effectively supporting surgical research activity and the availability of research resources for surgical departments during the initial six-year period of its operation.

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