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Evaluation of the academic achievements of clinician health services research scientists involved in "pre-K" career development award programs.
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Journal of clinical and translational science [J Clin Transl Sci] 2021 Apr 16; Vol. 5 (1), pp. e122. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 16 (Print Publication: 2021). - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Introduction: Research career development awards (CDAs) facilitate development of clinician-scientists. This study compared the academic achievements of individuals in a structured institutional "pre-K" CDA program, the Mayo Clinic Kern Scholars program, with individuals who applied for but were not admitted to the Kern program ("Kern applicants"), and awardees of other unstructured internal CDAs.<br />Methods: This was a longitudinal cohort study of clinicians engaged in research at Mayo Clinic between 2010 and 2019. The primary outcome was time to the 15 <superscript>th</superscript> new peer-reviewed publication after the program start, adjusted for baseline number of publications. Secondarily, we described successful awarding of federal funding by the NIH or VA.<br />Results: The median (IQR) number of baseline publications was highest among Kern Scholars compared to Kern Applicants or other CDA awardees [16 (12, 29) vs 5 (1, 11) and 8 (5, 16); P < 0.001]. After adjustment for baseline publications, the time to 15th new publication was significantly shorter for Kern Scholars than for the two comparator groups (P<0.001). Similar findings were observed with total new publications within 5 years (P < 0.001), as well as number of new first-/last-author publications within 5 years (P < 0.001). The overall frequency of K-awards, R-awards (or equivalent), or any funding were similar between groups, with the exception of R03 awards, which were significantly more common among Kern Scholars (P = 0.002).<br />Conclusion: The Kern Scholars program is a successful training model for clinician-scientists that demonstrated comparatively greater acceleration of scholarly productivity than other internal CDA programs.<br />Competing Interests: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.<br /> (© The Association for Clinical and Translational Science 2021.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2059-8661
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of clinical and translational science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 34267949
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2021.780