Abstract
Traditionally, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires residency programs to implement research and other scholarly activities into their training curriculum. Encouraging residents to publish during residency is believed to promote research throughout their careers; however, no study has attempted to quantify research productivity among orthopedic surgery residents before, during, and after residency. To determine whether publishing in peer-reviewed journals during orthopedic residencies was an indicator of continued academic achievement after graduation. This study was observational in nature and employed a cross-sectional design. We examined whether research outcomes during orthopedic residency was associated with academic advancement or continued research involvement after residency. We identified 201 orthopedic residency programs on the Doximity website and randomly selected 50 to include in our sample. Of these programs, graduate rosters for 31 programs were located and subsequently included. Of the 341 graduates identified, we recorded the number of peer-reviewed publications, H-indices, fellowships, and whether the graduate pursued a career in private practice or academia. Orthopedic residency graduates from 31 programs published a total of 1923 peer-reviewed manuscripts. On average, residents had a total of 5.6 publications and an h-index of 3.2. Residents entering academia and pursuing fellowships had a significantly higher total number of publications, higher number of first-author publications, and greater H-indices compared to those who did not enter academia or pursue a fellowship. Increased research productivity was associated with continued academic pursuits and an increased likelihood of pursuing fellowship training after residency.
Highlights
Context: Traditionally, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires residency programs to implement research and other scholarly activities into their training curriculum
Efforts have been made to determine the level of adherence to ACGME research requirements in other medical specialties, to our knowledge, no study has correlated research productivity of orthopedics residency graduates with continued academic success or analyzed whether those with higher research output elected to pursue a fellowship upon completion of residency training
We present our findings of current research practices and publication trends of orthopedic surgery residency graduates to determine (1) if research efforts made during medical training predicted future academic achievements; and (2) if higher research output during residency correlated with the pursuit of fellowship training or a career in academia
Summary
Context: Traditionally, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires residency programs to implement research and other scholarly activities into their training curriculum. Since its conception in 1994, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) [7] has placed research requirements on both residency programs and their residents These requirements mandate that residency programs teach residents “basic principles of scientific inquiry, including how research is designed, conducted, evaluated, explained to patients, and applied to patient care,” and residents must engage in scholarly activities as part of their training [8]. Efforts have been made to determine the level of adherence to ACGME research requirements in other medical specialties, to our knowledge, no study has correlated research productivity of orthopedics residency graduates with continued academic success or analyzed whether those with higher research output elected to pursue a fellowship upon completion of residency training. We present our findings of current research practices and publication trends of orthopedic surgery residency graduates to determine (1) if research efforts made during medical training (student, resident during residency and postgraduate, fellowship and postgraduate, academia, and private practice) predicted future academic achievements; and (2) if higher research output during residency correlated with the pursuit of fellowship training or a career in academia
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