Quan Theodore, Yoon Kevin, Sabha Mumin, Benn Lancelot, Hassanzadeh Hamid, Mesfin Addisu
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York.
JB JS Open Access. 2025 Jul 8;10(3). doi: 10.2106/JBJS.OA.25.00064. eCollection 2025 Jul-Sep.
Orthopaedic traveling fellowship programs provide surgeons with valuable opportunities for professional growth and specialized learning. However, there has been limited research on the impact of such programs on scholarly success and career advancement. The aim of this study was to evaluate the demographic, academic, and scholarly outcomes of traveling fellowship participants.
This study was a retrospective analysis of orthopaedic surgeons who participated in a traveling fellowship program from 1989 to 2024. Demographic and academic characteristics were collected for each traveling fellowship recipient, including residency program attended, fellowship specialty, fellowship institution, academic rank, current practice environment, and leadership roles. The Scopus database was used to determine individual H-indices and number of publications. Other characteristics included board position in a major orthopaedic society, National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) grant recipient, advanced degrees, and editorial board position in an orthopaedic journal. Descriptive and regression statistics were used for the study.
Of the 558 physicians who participated in an orthopaedic traveling fellowship, demographic and academic information was available for 506 of them (90.7%). Of these, the majority (96.6%) only completed 1 traveling fellowship. Predominantly, recipients were male (90.7%) and White (79.1%) and had completed a sports fellowship (33.0%). Current practicing environment was often academic (76.5%), with most holding the rank of professor (51.0%). Seventy-two participants (14.2%) had a leadership role as chair and 48 (9.5%) were division chiefs. Participants had an average H-index of 35.7 and averaged 169.9 publications. One hundred seventy-three fellowship recipients (34.2%) received an OREF grant and 67 (13.2%) received NIH research funding. Fellowship participants who received an OREF grant or NIH funding were more likely to have a higher faculty rank, higher H-index, and an increase in the number of publications (p < 0.001 for all).
The lessons, skills, and knowledge from traveling fellowships appear to play an important role in shaping the academic and scholarly career of orthopaedic surgeons.
Level IV. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
骨科进修项目为外科医生提供了职业成长和专业学习的宝贵机会。然而，关于此类项目对学术成就和职业发展影响的研究有限。本研究的目的是评估参加进修项目人员的人口统计学、学术和学术成果。
本研究是对1989年至2024年参加骨科进修项目的外科医生进行的回顾性分析。收集了每位进修人员的人口统计学和学术特征，包括住院医师培训项目、进修专业、进修机构、学术职称、当前执业环境和领导职务。使用Scopus数据库确定个人H指数和出版物数量。其他特征包括在主要骨科协会的委员会职位、美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）研究资金、骨科研究与教育基金会（OREF）资助获得者、高级学位以及在骨科期刊的编辑委员会职位。本研究采用描述性和回归统计方法。
在558名参加骨科进修的医生中，有506人（90.7%）可获得人口统计学和学术信息。其中，大多数人（96.6%）只完成了一次进修。主要地，进修人员以男性（90.7%）和白人（79.1%）为主，并且完成了运动医学进修（33.0%）。当前的执业环境通常是学术性的（76.5%），大多数人担任教授职称（51.0%）。72名参与者（14.2%）担任主席的领导职务，48名（9.5%）是科室主任。参与者的平均H指数为35.7，平均发表论文169.9篇。173名进修人员（34.2%）获得了OREF资助，67名（13.2%）获得了NIH研究资金。获得OREF资助或NIH资金的进修人员更有可能拥有更高的教职级别、更高的H指数以及出版物数量的增加（所有p<0.001）。
进修项目所学的经验、技能和知识似乎在塑造骨科医生的学术和职业生涯中发挥着重要作用。
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