Predictors of Career Placement Among American Neurotology Society Fellowship Graduates.

ABSTRACT AND OBJECTIVE

To identify predictors of practice type and location after neurotology fellowship based on demographics and educational history.

STUDY DESIGN

Cross-sectional analysis.

SETTING

Conference programs from the American Neurotology Society Spring Meeting from 2016 to 2022.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE

Percentage of neurotologists who pursued academic careers.

RESULTS

A total of 114 neurotology fellows were identified. Of the 98 individuals included in final analysis, 64 (65%) pursued academic careers. Fellows most likely to enter academic practice trained at a residency program ranked in the top 50% based on Doximity residency rankings by reputation (74 versus 45%, p < 0.01) or graduated from a residency program with a neurotology fellowship (82 versus 56%, p < 0.01). Graduates from fellowship programs in the Northeast were most likely to enter academic careers (83%). Fifty percent of neurotologists practiced in the same region as their residency training, and 48% practiced the same region as their fellowship. The region with the highest number of practicing neurotology graduates was the South (47%).

CONCLUSION

Residency program ranking and residency institutions with neurotology fellowships were the leading predictors of academic career placement in the field of neurotology. Many neurotologists tend to stay in a similar geographical location to where they underwent medical training.