Burke Andrea B, Cheng Kristie L, Han Jesse T, Dillon Jasjit K, Dodson Thomas B, Susarla Srinivas M
Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Washington School of Dentistry, Seattle, WA.
Dental Student, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Washington School of Dentistry, Seattle, WA.
J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2019 Feb;77(2):240-246. doi: 10.1016/j.joms.2018.07.010. Epub 2018 Jul 19.
Several studies of surgical specialties have shown disparities in measures of research productivity and academic rank between female and male surgeons. The purpose of this work was to measure the role of surgeon gender in academic success in oral and maxillofacial surgery.
We performed a cross-sectional study of full-time academic oral and maxillofacial surgeons (OMSs) in the United States as of June 2017. The primary study variable was surgeon gender (male or female). The primary outcome variable was research productivity assessed using 2 different parameters: 1) h index (number of publications h with at least h citations each) and 2) academic rank. The other study variables were demographic characteristics potentially related to the outcome measures. Descriptive, bivariate, and regression statistics were computed.
The study sample comprised 306 full-time academic OMSs, 53 (17.3%) of whom were women. On average, female OMSs had shorter academic careers (mean time since completion of training, 11.0 ± 8.2 years for female OMSs vs 22.0 ± 14.1 years for male OMSs; P < .001). There were no other significant differences between male and female OMSs regarding the secondary measures (P ≥ .23). Male OMSs had a higher mean h index than female OMSs (7.1 ± 8.6 vs 5.1 ± 7.9, P = .01). Academic rank was statistically significantly different between female and male OMSs, with a greater proportion of higher ranks seen in male OMSs (P = .001). After adjustment for career length and other confounders or effect modifiers, gender was not an independent predictor of the h index or academic rank (P ≥ .22).
Although female surgeons represent a minority of full-time academic OMSs, academic success measured using research productivity and academic rank was not associated with gender.
多项针对外科专业的研究表明，男女外科医生在研究产出和学术排名方面存在差异。本研究旨在衡量外科医生性别在口腔颌面外科领域学术成就中的作用。
我们对截至2017年6月美国全职学术型口腔颌面外科医生（OMS）进行了一项横断面研究。主要研究变量为外科医生性别（男性或女性）。主要结局变量为研究产出，采用两个不同参数进行评估：1）h指数（发表的论文数量h，每篇论文至少被引用h次）和2）学术排名。其他研究变量为可能与结局指标相关的人口统计学特征。计算了描述性、双变量和回归统计量。
研究样本包括306名全职学术型OMS，其中53名（17.3%）为女性。平均而言，女性OMS的学术生涯较短（完成培训后的平均时间，女性OMS为11.0±8.2年，男性OMS为22.0±14.1年；P<.001）。在次要指标方面，男女OMS之间没有其他显著差异（P≥.23）。男性OMS的平均h指数高于女性OMS（7.1±8.6对5.1±7.9，P=.01）。男女OMS的学术排名在统计学上有显著差异，男性OMS中较高排名的比例更大（P=.001）。在调整职业长度和其他混杂因素或效应修饰因素后，性别不是h指数或学术排名的独立预测因素（P≥.22）。
尽管女性外科医生在全职学术型OMS中占少数，但用研究产出和学术排名衡量的学术成就与性别无关。
