Hyer Christopher F, Casciato Dominick J, Rushing Calvin J, Schuberth John M
Fellowship Co-Director, Orthopedic Foot & Ankle Center, Worthington, OH.
Resident Physician, OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, Columbus, OH.
J Foot Ankle Surg. 2022 Nov-Dec;61(6):1317-1320. doi: 10.1053/j.jfas.2022.04.011. Epub 2022 Apr 29.
Continuing medical education (CME) is an important element to maintain licensing requirements, enhance professional competence, and disseminate up to date, evidence-based, treatment recommendations. A key resource of CME are the 2 annual society meetings hosted by the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) and American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS). It is assumed that the selected speakers at these meetings are content experts, providing validated expertise on treatment recommendations, rather than anecdotal experience or opinion. Across all medical specialists, peer-reviewed publication(s) on a particular subject matter have long bestowed the ultimate validity of "expertise." The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence of scholarly publication for invited speakers at the ACFAS and AOFAS annual meetings from 2016 to 2020, in relation to the topic they were selected to present. A review of invited lectures given at the ACFAS and AOFAS annual meetings from 2016 to 2020 was conducted, and lecturer demographics were categorized into predetermined content areas for assessment. Selected speakers were individually cross-referenced with content-specific peer-reviewed published literature, and overall h-index using Scopus. Topic and society specific comparisons were then made. Overall, 1028 lectures were identified during the temporal period. Only 300 (29.18%) presentations were given by a speaker with least one or more publication on the society specific lecture-topic presented. The greatest proportion of lecturers with content-specific publications was Charcot reconstruction (67.57%) followed by ankle fusion/replacement (55%). The average presenter h-index was greatest among total ankle replacement/ankle fusion (12.16 ± 6.90) and Charcot reconstruction (11.27 ± 7.10) content. The results of the present study illustrate a disparity of expertise among different content areas. While both meetings provide well-published lecturers, this study reveals areas for improvement.
继续医学教育（CME）是维持执照要求、提高专业能力以及传播最新的、基于证据的治疗建议的重要组成部分。CME的一个关键资源是美国足踝外科医师学会（ACFAS）和美国矫形足踝学会（AOFAS）每年举办的两次学会会议。假定在这些会议上选定的演讲者是内容专家，他们提供经过验证的治疗建议专业知识，而非轶事经验或观点。在所有医学专科中，关于特定主题的同行评审出版物长期以来赋予了“专业知识”最终的有效性。本研究的目的是评估2016年至2020年ACFAS和AOFAS年会受邀演讲者的学术发表率，以及与他们被选演讲的主题之间的关系。对2016年至2020年ACFAS和AOFAS年会的受邀讲座进行了回顾，并将演讲者的人口统计学信息分类到预先确定的内容领域进行评估。将选定的演讲者与特定内容的同行评审发表文献以及使用Scopus的总体h指数进行单独交叉引用。然后进行主题和学会特定的比较。总体而言，在该时间段内共识别出1028场讲座。只有300场（29.18%）演讲是由至少在该学会特定讲座主题上发表过一篇或多篇文章的演讲者进行的。特定内容发表文章的演讲者比例最高的是夏科氏关节重建（67.57%），其次是踝关节融合/置换（55%）。在全踝关节置换/踝关节融合（12.16±6.90）和夏科氏关节重建（11.27±7.10）内容方面，演讲者的平均h指数最高。本研究结果表明不同内容领域之间存在专业知识的差异。虽然这两次会议都有发表成果颇丰的演讲者，但本研究揭示了仍有改进空间。
