Lamba Abhinav, Rich Matthew D, Quick Joseph D, Sorenson Thomas J, Barta Ruth J, Schubert Warren
Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, USA.
Department of Plastic Surgery, New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA.
Cureus. 2023 Aug 6;15(8):e43025. doi: 10.7759/cureus.43025. eCollection 2023 Aug.
The integrated plastic surgery residency match is a highly competitive process. If performed wisely, medical research is an opportunity to differentiate applications from peers, and productivity is closely evaluated by residency programs. In this study, the authors aimed to characterize medical student research productivity for integrated plastic surgery residency programs and their respective medical schools. To this end, the authors performed a retrospective review of senior author publications from the 81 integrated plastic surgery programs from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2020. The primary outcome was a publication with a medical student as the first author. Secondary outcomes included the number of faculty from each program, the geographic region of the program, and the ranking of associated medical schools. It was found that the average number of medical student first-author publications and faculty members per institution were 14.0 and 11.0, respectively. There was a positive correlation between the number of faculty members and several medical student first-author publications for a program ( = 0.54, < 0.0001). The average number of medical student first-author publications was higher in the top 25 programs than for the remaining programs ( < 0.001), and most medical student first-author publications in the United States were produced by 10 plastic surgery programs. From these findings, it was concluded that these programs associated with higher-ranking medical schools produce greater numbers of medical student first-author publications. These analyses of medical student academic productivity should be a highly useful guide for current and future medical students as they strategize their successful match into plastic surgery.
整形外科学住院医师综合匹配是一个竞争激烈的过程。如果明智地开展，医学研究是使申请区别于同行的一个机会，住院医师培训项目会密切评估研究产出。在本研究中，作者旨在描述综合整形外科学住院医师培训项目及其各自医学院校的医学生研究产出情况。为此，作者对2016年1月1日至2020年12月31日期间81个综合整形外科学项目的通讯作者发表的文章进行了回顾性分析。主要结果是以医学生为第一作者的出版物。次要结果包括每个项目的教员数量、项目所在地理区域以及相关医学院校的排名。结果发现，每个机构医学生第一作者发表文章的平均数量和教员数量分别为14.0和11.0。一个项目的教员数量与医学生第一作者发表文章的数量之间存在正相关（= 0.54，< 0.0001）。排名前25的项目中医学生第一作者发表文章的平均数量高于其余项目（< 0.001），美国大多数医学生第一作者发表的文章是由10个整形外科学项目完成的。从这些发现得出结论，与排名较高医学院校相关的这些项目产生的医学生第一作者发表文章数量更多。这些对医学生学术产出的分析对于当前和未来的医学生在规划成功匹配进入整形外科学领域时应是非常有用的指南。
