Medical College of Georgia (ANP), Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia; Division of Biostatistics (JT), Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Division of Neuro-Ophthalmology (ADH), Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; and Department of Neurology (ADH), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
J Neuroophthalmol. 2023 Sep 1;43(3):303-306. doi: 10.1097/WNO.0000000000001836. Epub 2023 Apr 19.
There is modest literature regarding fellowship applicant factors that may predict future career achievement. We aim to characterize neuro-ophthalmology fellows and identify and analyze characteristics that may predict future career trajectory.
Data, including demographic information, academic background, scholarly activities, and practice information, were collected using publicly available sources, on individuals who completed neuro-ophthalmology fellowships from 2015 to 2021. Summary statistics describing the cohort were calculated. Prefellowship characteristics were compared with postfellowship characteristics to evaluate which prefellowship characteristics may predict postfellowship academic productivity and career achievement.
Data were collected on 174 individuals (41.6% men, 58.4% women). Sixty-five percent were residency-trained in ophthalmology, 31% neurology, 1.7% both, and 1.7% pediatric neurology. Fifty-eight percent completed residency in the US, 8% in Canada, 32% internationally, and 2% in multiple locations. Among those practicing in the US/Canada, 63.8% practice at academic centers, 35.3% private practice, and 0.9% at both. Thirty-one percent completed additional subspecialty training and 17.8% additional graduate degrees. Completion of additional fellowship training or graduate degrees, and publication of more papers before fellowship, correlated with later academic productivity. There were no significant correlations between completion of an additional fellowship or graduate degree with current practice environment or attainment of leadership roles. There were no significant correlations between total publishing productivity prefellowship and practice environment or leadership roles postfellowship.
Additional graduate degrees/subspecialty training, and prefellowship academic productivity, correlated with later academic productivity among neuro-ophthalmologists, suggesting that these metrics may be helpful in predicting future academic performance among fellowship applicants.
关于可能预测未来职业成就的研究员申请人因素，相关文献较少。我们旨在描述神经眼科研究员，并确定和分析可能预测未来职业轨迹的特征。
从 2015 年至 2021 年，使用公开资料收集了完成神经眼科研究员培训的个人的资料，包括人口统计信息、学术背景、学术活动和实践信息。计算了描述队列的汇总统计数据。比较了研究员前特征与研究员后特征，以评估哪些研究员前特征可能预测研究员后学术产出和职业成就。
共收集了 174 人的数据（41.6%为男性，58.4%为女性）。65%接受过眼科住院医师培训，31%接受过神经病学培训，1.7%两者兼修，1.7%接受过儿科神经病学培训。58%的人在美国完成住院医师培训，8%在加拿大，32%在其他国家，2%在多个地点。在美国/加拿大执业的人员中，63.8%在学术中心执业，35.3%在私人诊所执业，0.9%在两者兼而有之。31%的人完成了额外的亚专业培训，17.8%的人获得了额外的研究生学位。在研究员培训或研究生学位之前发表更多的论文与以后的学术生产力相关。完成额外的研究员培训或研究生学位与当前的实践环境或获得领导角色之间没有显著相关性。研究员前的总出版生产力与研究员后的实践环境或领导角色之间没有显著相关性。
额外的研究生学位/亚专业培训和研究员前的学术产出与神经眼科医生以后的学术产出相关，这表明这些指标可能有助于预测研究员申请人未来的学术表现。
