Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Department of Medicine, Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Digestive Disease Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
JCI Insight. 2022 Mar 22;7(6):e158467. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.158467.
Postgraduate physician-scientist training programs (PSTPs) enhance the experiences of physician-scientist trainees following medical school graduation. PSTPs usually span residency and fellowship training, but this varies widely by institution. Applicant competitiveness for these programs would be enhanced, and unnecessary trainee anxiety relieved, by a clear understanding of what factors define a successful PSTP matriculant. Such information would also be invaluable to PSTP directors and would allow benchmarking of their admissions processes with peer programs. We conducted a survey of PSTP directors across the US to understand the importance they placed on components of PSTP applications. Of 41 survey respondents, most were from internal medicine and pediatrics residency programs. Of all components in the application, two elements were considered very important by a majority of PSTP directors: (a) having one or more first-author publications and (b) the thesis advisor's letter. Less weight was consistently placed on factors often considered more relevant for non-physician-scientist postgraduate applicants - such as US Medical Licensing Examination scores, awards, and leadership activities. The data presented here highlight important metrics for PSTP applicants and directors and suggest that indicators of scientific productivity and commitment to research outweigh traditional quantitative measures of medical school performance.
研究生医师科学家培训计划（PSTP）增强了医学生毕业后医师科学家受训者的经验。PSTP 通常跨越住院医师和研究员培训，但这在机构之间差异很大。通过清楚地了解哪些因素定义了成功的 PSTP 入学学员，可以提高这些计划的申请人竞争力，并减轻不必要的学员焦虑。此类信息对 PSTP 主任也非常有价值，并允许将他们的招生流程与同行计划进行基准比较。我们对美国的 PSTP 主任进行了调查，以了解他们对 PSTP 申请组成部分的重视程度。在 41 名调查回复者中，大多数人来自内科和儿科住院医师培训计划。在申请的所有组成部分中，有两个要素被大多数 PSTP 主任认为非常重要：（a）有一篇或多篇一作论文，以及（b）论文导师的推荐信。通常被认为与非医师科学家研究生申请者更相关的因素（如美国医师执照考试成绩、奖项和领导活动）的权重则较低。这里呈现的数据突出了 PSTP 申请者和主任的重要指标，并表明科学生产力和对研究的承诺指标比医学院表现的传统定量指标更为重要。
