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Implementation of a protocol to increase the academic productivity of cardiothoracic surgery resident physicians
- Source :
- The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 163:739-745
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2022.
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Abstract
- Academic productivity during cardiothoracic surgery residency training is an important program metric, but is highly variable due to multiple factors. This study evaluated the influence of implementing a protocol to increase resident physicians' academic productivity in cardiac surgery.A comprehensive protocol for cardiac surgery was implemented at our institution that included active pairing of residents with academically productive faculty, regular research meetings, centralized data storage and analysis with a core team of biostatisticians, a formal peer-review protocol for analytic requests, and project prioritization and feedback. We compared cardiothoracic surgery residents' academic productivity before implementation (July 2015-June 2017) versus after implementation (July 2017-June 2019). Academic productivity was measured by peer-reviewed articles, abstract presentations (oral or poster) at national cardiothoracic surgery meetings, and textbook chapters.Thirty-four resident physicians (from traditional and integrated programs) trained at our institution during the study. A total of 122 peer-reviewed articles were produced over the course of the study: 74 (60.7%) cardiac- and 48 (39.3%) thoracic-focused. The number of cardiac-focused resident-produced articles increased from 10 preimplementation to 64 postimplementation (0.61 vs 2.03 articles per resident; P .01). Abstract oral or poster presentations also increased, from 11 to 40 (0.61 vs 1.33 abstracts per resident; P = .01). Textbook chapters increased from 4 to 15 following the intervention (0.22 vs 0.5 chapters per resident; P = .01).Implementation of a dedicated protocol to facilitate faculty mentoring of resident research and streamline the data access, analysis, and publication process substantially improved cardiothoracic surgery residents' academic productivity.
- Subjects :
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Prioritization
medicine.medical_specialty
Biomedical Research
education
Efficiency
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Speech
Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Productivity
Faculty mentoring
Surgeons
Protocol (science)
Academic Medical Centers
Medical education
business.industry
Mentors
Internship and Residency
Thoracic Surgery
Congresses as Topic
Authorship
Multiple factors
030228 respiratory system
Education, Medical, Graduate
Cardiothoracic surgery
Surgery
Curriculum
Metric (unit)
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Residency training
Program Evaluation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00225223
- Volume :
- 163
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....59a65ea6f5a2df136c5299741ae892c7