Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
NYU Langone Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, New York, New York.
J Surg Educ. 2022 Mar-Apr;79(2):355-361. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.10.015. Epub 2021 Nov 17.
Rankings of residency programs are highly influential and utilized by residency applicants. Existing ranking resources often use opaque criteria that may include bias or do not accurately represent the academic achievement of current faculty. This study aims to create an updated general surgery residency ranking list based on the academic achievements of their respective surgery department faculty members.
One hundred and six general surgery residency programs were selected from the American Medical Association Residency & Fellowship Programs Database. The names of faculty members affiliated with the departments of surgery were manually obtained. Lifetime and five-year h-indexes, a sum of grant awards from the National Institute of Health and Veterans Affairs, and a tally of journal editorial board positions were collected for the faculty. Metrics were compared among surgical departments, and the corresponding residency programs were ranked accordingly.
The study evaluated university-based general surgery residency programs in the United States from 2017 to 2019 via assessing their respective institutions' departments of surgery.
A total of 7568 faculty members were evaluated. Faculty were required to be full-time, clinical surgeons to meet inclusion criteria.
Based on a composite of all measured criteria, the top overall surgery department was at the University of Michigan. Massachusetts General Hospital had the highest lifetime and five-year h-indexes. Brigham and Women's Hospital had the most National Institute of Health funding, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center had the most Veterans Affairs funding. Washington University in St. Louis/Barnes Jewish Hospital had the most editorial board positions in their department.
The academic success of departments of surgery was evaluated to develop a ranking list of general surgery residency programs. Through utilizing standardized methods and several measures of academic achievement, this comprehensive general surgery residency classification system will allow residency applicants to make more informed decisions.
住院医师培训计划的排名对住院医师申请人有很大的影响和作用。现有的排名资源通常使用不透明的标准，这些标准可能包含偏见，或者不能准确反映当前教师的学术成就。本研究旨在根据各自外科系教师的学术成就，创建一个更新的普通外科住院医师培训排名列表。
从美国医学协会住院医师和奖学金项目数据库中选择了 106 个普通外科住院医师培训计划。手动获取了与外科系相关的教师的姓名。收集了教师的终身和五年 h 指数、美国国立卫生研究院和退伍军人事务部的资助总额，以及期刊编辑委员会职位的总数。对外科系之间的指标进行了比较，并相应地对相应的住院医师培训计划进行了排名。
该研究通过评估各自机构的外科系，评估了美国大学的普通外科住院医师培训计划。
共评估了 7568 名教师。教师必须是全职临床外科医生才能符合纳入标准。
根据所有测量标准的综合得分，密歇根大学的外科系排名第一。麻省总医院的终身和五年 h 指数最高。布里格姆妇女医院获得的国立卫生研究院资助最多，匹兹堡大学医学中心获得的退伍军人事务部资助最多。圣路易斯华盛顿大学/巴恩斯犹太医院在其外科系拥有最多的编辑委员会职位。
评估外科系的学术成功，制定普通外科住院医师培训计划的排名。通过使用标准化方法和多种学术成就衡量标准，这个全面的普通外科住院医师分类系统将使住院医师申请人能够做出更明智的决策。
