Implementation of a protocol to increase the academic productivity of cardiothoracic surgery resident physicians.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Mosby Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0376343 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1097-685X (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00225223 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: St. Louis, MO : Mosby
      Original Publication: St. Louis.
    • Subject Terms:
      Education, Medical, Graduate* ; Internship and Residency*; Biomedical Research/*education ; Cardiac Surgical Procedures/*education ; Surgeons/*education ; Thoracic Surgery/*education; Academic Medical Centers ; Authorship ; Congresses as Topic ; Curriculum ; Efficiency ; Humans ; Mentors ; Peer Review, Research ; Program Evaluation ; Speech
    • Abstract:
      Objective: Academic productivity during cardiothoracic surgery residency training is an important program metric, but is highly variable due to multiple factors. This study evaluated the influence of implementing a protocol to increase resident physicians' academic productivity in cardiac surgery.
      Methods: A comprehensive protocol for cardiac surgery was implemented at our institution that included active pairing of residents with academically productive faculty, regular research meetings, centralized data storage and analysis with a core team of biostatisticians, a formal peer-review protocol for analytic requests, and project prioritization and feedback. We compared cardiothoracic surgery residents' academic productivity before implementation (July 2015-June 2017) versus after implementation (July 2017-June 2019). Academic productivity was measured by peer-reviewed articles, abstract presentations (oral or poster) at national cardiothoracic surgery meetings, and textbook chapters.
      Results: Thirty-four resident physicians (from traditional and integrated programs) trained at our institution during the study. A total of 122 peer-reviewed articles were produced over the course of the study: 74 (60.7%) cardiac- and 48 (39.3%) thoracic-focused. The number of cardiac-focused resident-produced articles increased from 10 preimplementation to 64 postimplementation (0.61 vs 2.03 articles per resident; P < .01). Abstract oral or poster presentations also increased, from 11 to 40 (0.61 vs 1.33 abstracts per resident; P = .01). Textbook chapters increased from 4 to 15 following the intervention (0.22 vs 0.5 chapters per resident; P = .01).
      Conclusions: Implementation of a dedicated protocol to facilitate faculty mentoring of resident research and streamline the data access, analysis, and publication process substantially improved cardiothoracic surgery residents' academic productivity.
      (Copyright © 2020 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
    • Comments:
      Comment in: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2022 Feb;163(2):747-748. (PMID: 33198971)
      Comment in: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2022 Feb;163(2):746-747. (PMID: 33234255)
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: cardiac surgery research; research education; research protocol; resident productivity; surgical education
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20201102 Date Completed: 20220131 Latest Revision: 20220131
    • Publication Date:
      20240628
    • Accession Number:
      10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.09.122
    • Accession Number:
      33131886