Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
World Neurosurg. 2021 Mar;147:181-189.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.12.045. Epub 2020 Dec 16.
The neurosurgery residency match is a competitive process. While medical research offers esteemed learning opportunities, productivity is closely evaluated by residency programs. Accordingly, students work diligently to make contributions on projects within their neurosurgery departments. The present study evaluated medical student research productivity for each of the 118 U.S. neurosurgery residency programs.
A retrospective review of publications for 118 neurosurgery programs from January 1, 2015, to April 1, 2020, was performed. The primary outcome was any publication with a medical student as the first author. Secondary outcomes included number of faculty in each department, department region, and medical school ranking. The number of student first author publications was compared among programs, regions, and medical schools.
Mean numbers of medical student first author publications and faculty members per institution were 16.27 and 14.46, respectively. The top 3 neurosurgery departments with the greatest number of student first author publications were Johns Hopkins University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and University of California, San Francisco. Salient findings included a positive correlation between the number of medical student first author publications from a neurosurgery department and the number of departmental faculty (P < 0.001, R = 0.69). Additionally, the mean number of first author medical student publications at the top 30 programs was higher than the mean for the remaining programs (P < 0.0001).
This study is the first to evaluate neurosurgery medical student productivity in North America. By systematizing first authorships, incoming students who desire to pursue neurosurgery can be informed of institutions with student involvement, and departments that use medical student expertise can be recognized.
神经外科住院医师匹配是一个竞争激烈的过程。虽然医学研究提供了备受推崇的学习机会，但住院医师计划会密切评估生产力。因此，学生们努力在他们的神经外科部门的项目中做出贡献。本研究评估了美国 118 个神经外科住院医师项目中每个项目的医学生研究成果。
对 2015 年 1 月 1 日至 2020 年 4 月 1 日期间 118 个神经外科项目的出版物进行了回顾性审查。主要结果是任何以医学生为第一作者的出版物。次要结果包括每个部门的教员人数、部门所在地区和医学院排名。比较了各项目、各地区和各医学院的学生第一作者出版物数量。
平均每个机构的医学生第一作者出版物数量和教员人数分别为 16.27 和 14.46。发表医学生第一作者论文数量最多的前 3 个神经外科部门是约翰霍普金斯大学、布莱根妇女医院和加州大学旧金山分校。显著发现包括神经外科部门的医学生第一作者出版物数量与部门教员数量之间存在正相关（P < 0.001，R = 0.69）。此外，前 30 名项目的医学生第一作者出版物平均数量高于其余项目（P < 0.0001）。
这项研究首次评估了北美的神经外科医学生的生产力。通过系统地确定第一作者，希望从事神经外科的新生可以了解有学生参与的机构，并且可以认识到使用医学生专业知识的部门。
