Abstract
Purpose: Previous studies have shown that research can be used as a predictive factor for an academic career for physicians in the fields of radiation oncology, orthopedic surgery, and diagnostic radiology. We seek to determine if this factor is predictive for all medical specialties based on an analysis of public data on physicians who have trained at Hershey Medical Center (HMC) and public National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) charting outcomes.Methods: We determined the location and job title of all graduates of HMC residency training programs through a combination of publicly available information on HMC's website and other institutions' websites. We separated these into academic and non-academic positions and performed Chi-square analysis to determine if the number of research experiences was predictive of an academic career.Results: Participating in the residency specialties of general surgery, pathology, internal medicine, and neurological surgery are statistically significant predictors of an academic career upon graduation. The average number of research experiences obtained by matched U.S. medical students is not a statistically significant predictor of an academic career upon graduation.Conclusion: In contrast to previously published studies, a higher number of research experiences in medical school is not a significant predictor of an academic career for attending physicians who graduated residency at HMC.
Highlights
Academic physicians serve many roles: they are educators, investigators, and clinicians
Studies performed in orthopedic surgery, diagnostic radiology, and one performed that encompassed all specialties have likewise shown a positive correlation between research and an academic career [1,2,4]
The aim of this study is to investigate if the number of research experiences that a medical student has based on the averages reported in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) charting outcomes of 2018 by specialty could be used to predict an academic career after completion of residency
Summary
Academic physicians serve many roles: they are educators, investigators, and clinicians. A previous study of radiation oncology physicians has shown that they are twice as likely to choose an academic career if they had published at least one peer-reviewed paper during medical school [3]. The aim of this study is to investigate if the number of research experiences that a medical student has based on the averages reported in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) charting outcomes of 2018 by specialty could be used to predict an academic career after completion of residency. It is hypothesized that physicians in the top five specialties with the highest number of research experiences will be more likely to go into academics, given that previous papers had shown research to be a major contributing factor to future academic positions [13]
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