Center for Innovation in Medical Education, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Perspect Med Educ. 2019 Aug;8(4):223-229. doi: 10.1007/s40037-019-0524-3.
Engagement of clinicians in research is important for the integration of science and clinical practice. However, at this moment, there is a shortage of clinician-scientists. Success experiences can stimulate student interest in a research career. Conducting actual research leading to publication is a potential method to gain success experience. This study assessed whether publication as a medical student is associated with publication after graduation. We determined whether medical students in the Netherlands who are involved in research, as measured by publication in international journals before graduation: 1) are more likely to publish, 2) publish a greater number of papers, and 3) have higher citation impact scores after graduation.
We matched 2005-2008 MD graduates (with rare names, n = 4145 in total) from all eight Dutch university medical centres to their publications indexed in the Web of Science and published between 6 years before and 6 years after graduation. For sensitivity analysis we performed both automatic assignment on the whole group and manual assignment on a 10% random sample.
Students who had published before graduation: 1) were 1.9 times as likely to publish, 2) published more papers, and 3) had a slightly higher citation impact after graduation.
Medical students who conducted research leading to a publication before graduation were more likely to be scientifically active after graduation. While this is not a causal relationship per se, these results cautiously suggest that successful early involvement in research could influence the long-term scientific activity of clinicians.
临床医生参与研究对于将科学与临床实践相结合至关重要。然而，目前临床科学家短缺。成功经验可以激发学生对研究职业的兴趣。开展实际研究并发表论文是获得成功经验的潜在方法。本研究评估了医学生发表论文是否与毕业后的发表情况相关。我们确定了荷兰的医学生在毕业前通过在国际期刊上发表论文（以发表数量衡量），是否：1）更有可能发表论文，2）发表更多的论文，3）毕业后的论文引用影响评分更高。
我们将 2005-2008 年荷兰 8 所大学医学中心的所有 MD 毕业生（罕见姓名，总共有 4145 人）与他们在 Web of Science 中索引的论文进行了匹配，并在毕业后的 6 年前至 6 年后进行了出版。为了进行敏感性分析，我们对整个群体进行了自动分配，并对 10%的随机样本进行了手动分配。
毕业前发表过论文的学生：1）发表论文的可能性是原来的 1.9 倍，2）发表的论文更多，3）毕业后的论文引用影响评分略高。
在毕业前进行研究并发表论文的医学生在毕业后更有可能从事科学活动。虽然这本身并不是一种因果关系，但这些结果谨慎地表明，早期成功参与研究可能会影响临床医生的长期科学活动。
