Huang Grace, Fang Christina H, Lopez Santiago A, Bhagat Neelakshi, Langer Paul D, Eloy Jean Anderson
The Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey.
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey; Center for Skull Base and Pituitary Surgery, Neurological Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey; Department of Neurological Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey.
J Surg Educ. 2015 May-Jun;72(3):410-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2014.10.010. Epub 2014 Nov 22.
To assess whether scholarly impact of academic ophthalmologists, as measured using the h-index, is affected by fellowship training status and to further characterize differences in productivity among the various subspecialties and by departmental rank.
A descriptive and correlational design was used. In total, 1440 academic ophthalmologists from 99 ophthalmology training programs were analyzed. The h-index data were obtained from the Scopus database. Faculty members were classified by academic rank and grouped into 10 categories based on fellowship training: anterior segment, corneal and external disease, glaucoma, uveitis and ocular immunology, vitreoretinal disease, ophthalmic plastic surgery, pediatric ophthalmology, neuro-ophthalmology, ophthalmic pathology, and "other." A one-way analysis of variance or Student t test using Microsoft Excel and "R" statistical software were used for comparison of continuous variables, with significance set at p < 0.05.
Faculty working in academic ophthalmology residency training programs in the United States whose information is stored in the American Medical Association's Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database.
Fellowship-trained ophthalmologists had significantly higher research productivity, as measured using the h-index, than non-fellowship-trained ophthalmologists in this study (p < 0.0005). Academic ophthalmologists trained in vitreoretinal disease or ophthalmic pathology had the highest scholarly productivity compared with those in other ophthalmology subspecialties (p < 0.05). There was a significant increase in scholarly productivity with increasing academic rank from Assistant Professor to Professor (p < 0.05). A significant difference in productivity between fellowship-trained and non-fellowship-trained ophthalmologists existed individually only at the level of Assistant Professor (p < 0.0005).
Academic ophthalmologists with fellowship training have significantly higher scholarly output than non-fellowship-trained ophthalmologists do, as measured using the h-index. Research productivity increases with departmental academic rank from Assistant Professor to Professor.
评估使用h指数衡量的学术眼科医生的学术影响力是否受 fellowship 培训状态的影响，并进一步描述各亚专业以及按部门职级划分的生产力差异。
采用描述性和相关性设计。总共分析了来自99个眼科培训项目的1440名学术眼科医生。h指数数据从Scopus数据库获得。教员按学术职级分类，并根据 fellowship 培训分为10类：眼前段、角膜和外部疾病、青光眼、葡萄膜炎和眼部免疫学、玻璃体视网膜疾病、眼科整形手术、小儿眼科、神经眼科、眼科病理学以及“其他”。使用Microsoft Excel和“R”统计软件进行单因素方差分析或学生t检验，以比较连续变量，显著性设定为p < 0.05。
在美国学术眼科住院医师培训项目中工作的教员，其信息存储在美国医学协会的 fellowship 和住院医师电子交互式数据库中。
在本研究中，接受 fellowship 培训的眼科医生使用h指数衡量的研究生产力显著高于未接受 fellowship 培训的眼科医生（p < 0.0005）。与其他眼科亚专业相比，接受玻璃体视网膜疾病或眼科病理学培训的学术眼科医生的学术生产力最高（p < 0.05）。从助理教授到教授，随着学术职级的提高，学术生产力显著增加（p < 0.05）。接受 fellowship 培训和未接受 fellowship 培训的眼科医生之间的生产力差异仅在助理教授级别单独存在显著差异（p < 0.0005）。
使用h指数衡量，接受 fellowship 培训的学术眼科医生的学术产出显著高于未接受 fellowship 培训的眼科医生。研究生产力随着部门学术职级从助理教授到教授而增加。
