Lemme Nicholas J, Li Neill Y, Twomey-Kozak John, DeFroda Steven F, Silber Zachary, Daniels Alan H, Eberson Craig P
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
J Surg Educ. 2020 May-Jun;77(3):698-703. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2019.11.005. Epub 2019 Dec 16.
As the competitiveness of matching to an orthopedic residency continues to increase, applicants attempt to bolster their application by participating in research activities. However, due to the brief duration of medical school, applicants' articles may not be published at the time of applying. The purpose of this study was to identify projects that were listed under "publications-other than published" within Electronic Residency Application System (ERAS) applications of prospective orthopedic surgery residents to determine the rate and time of these projects to future publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Program directors can use this information to help interpret the importance of such articles on the applications of future residency candidates.
Retrospective study of prospective residents' applications to a single orthopedic residency program during the 2014 to 2015 application cycle were reviewed to identify articles designated as "other than published." Articles which advanced to official publication were confirmed using the Embase, PubMed, and Google Scholar databases. Applicant and article characteristics were recorded to identify variables associated with an increased proportion of articles that were able to be confirmed.
Prospective residents to a single orthopedic residency program during the 2014 to 2015 application cycle.
A total of 1957 article titles were listed amongst 563 applicants, with 48% of applicants (n = 271) having at least one peer-reviewed article listed as "other than published." Overall, 34.2% (709) of the articles were designated as being unpublished including 208 listed as accepted/in-press and 501 listed as submitted/under review. Of the accepted/in-press articles, 90.7% (n = 189) were able to be confirmed as successfully published papers, compared to 63.4% (n = 318) of articles designated as submitted/under review (p < 0.001). Factors predictive of articles which advanced to official publication were being accepted/in-press at the time of applying, a lower United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 1 score, and articles on orthopedic topics.
Nearly one-half of orthopedic residency applicants report unpublished research articles on their ERAS application. While 90.7% of the articles listed as being accepted/ in press were eventually published, less than two-thirds of the articles designated as being in submission/under-review progressed to official publication.
随着骨科住院医师匹配的竞争愈发激烈，申请者试图通过参与研究活动来增强自己的申请竞争力。然而，由于医学院学习时间较短，申请者的文章可能在申请时尚未发表。本研究旨在确定在电子住院医师申请系统（ERAS）中，未来骨科手术住院医师的申请里被列为“未发表的出版物”的项目，以确定这些项目在未来被同行评审期刊发表的比例和时间。项目主任可利用这些信息，帮助解读此类文章在未来住院医师候选人申请中的重要性。
对2014至2015年申请周期内，向单一骨科住院医师项目申请的未来住院医师的申请进行回顾性研究，以确定被指定为“未发表”的文章。使用Embase、PubMed和谷歌学术数据库确认已进入正式发表阶段的文章。记录申请者和文章的特征，以确定与能够被确认的文章比例增加相关的变量。
2014至2015年申请周期内，向单一骨科住院医师项目申请的未来住院医师。
563名申请者共列出1957篇文章标题，48%的申请者（n = 271）至少有一篇同行评审文章被列为“未发表”。总体而言，34.2%（709篇）的文章被指定为未发表，其中208篇列为已接受/即将发表，501篇列为已提交/正在评审。在已接受/即将发表的文章中，90.7%（n = 189）能够被确认为成功发表的论文，而在被指定为已提交/正在评审的文章中，这一比例为63.4%（n = 318）（p < 0.001）。预测文章进入正式发表阶段的因素包括申请时已被接受/即将发表、美国医师执照考试（USMLE）第一步得分较低以及关于骨科主题的文章。
近一半的骨科住院医师申请者在其ERAS申请中报告有未发表的研究文章。虽然列为已接受/即将发表的文章中有90.7%最终发表，但被指定为正在提交/评审的文章中，只有不到三分之二进入正式发表阶段。
