Gutowski Kristof S, Qureshi Umer A, Hallman Taylor G, Arcelona Christian N, Donaldson Rachel, Gosain Arun K
Division of Plastic Surgery, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA.
Plast Surg (Oakv). 2025 May 5:22925503251333387. doi: 10.1177/22925503251333387.
Research is an important component of medical student applications to plastic surgery residency. However, little is known about institution-level factors that may influence research productivity among plastic surgery applicants and how productivity during medical school impacts research output during residency. Plastic surgeons who graduated from an integrated plastic surgery residency program in the United States and obtained board certification between 2020 and 2022 were included in the study. Website profiles were used to obtain medical school and residency training information, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) iCite database was utilized to identify publications during medical school and residency training. Linear regression was performed to assess the correlation between research productivity during medical school and residency. Unpaired tests were performed to compare the mean number of publications between medical students. A total of 277 plastic surgeons were included in the analysis. The mean number of publications during medical school and residency was 3 and 8.7, respectively. The number of first-author publications during medical school had the strongest correlation with total research output during residency ( = 0.23, < .0001). Students at schools with plastic surgery residency programs (3.29 vs 1.56, < .0001) and students from top 40 NIH-funded medical schools (4.44 vs 1.84, < .0001) had significantly more publications than their peers. First-author publications during medical school may be the strongest predictor of productivity during residency. Students at schools without affiliated plastic surgery residency programs may have fewer opportunities to participate in scholarly activity.
研究是医学生申请整形外科住院医师项目的一个重要组成部分。然而，对于可能影响整形外科申请者研究生产力的机构层面因素，以及医学院期间的生产力如何影响住院医师期间的研究产出，我们知之甚少。该研究纳入了2020年至2022年期间从美国综合整形外科住院医师项目毕业并获得委员会认证的整形外科医生。利用网站简介获取医学院和住院医师培训信息，并使用美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）的iCite数据库来识别医学院和住院医师培训期间的出版物。进行线性回归以评估医学院期间和住院医师期间研究生产力之间的相关性。进行非配对检验以比较医学生之间的平均出版物数量。共有277名整形外科医生纳入分析。医学院期间和住院医师期间的平均出版物数量分别为3篇和8.7篇。医学院期间第一作者出版物的数量与住院医师期间的总研究产出相关性最强（ = 0.23，< 0.0001）。有整形外科住院医师项目的学校的学生（3.29篇对1.56篇，< 0.0001）和来自国立卫生研究院资助排名前40的医学院的学生（4.44篇对1.84篇，< 0.0001）比他们的同龄人有显著更多的出版物。医学院期间的第一作者出版物可能是住院医师期间生产力的最强预测指标。没有附属整形外科住院医师项目的学校的学生可能有较少的机会参与学术活动。
