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Rank and Research: The Correlation Between Integrated Plastic Surgery Program Reputation and Academic Productivity
Annals of Plastic Surgery
|March 20, 2018
Summary
Higher-ranked integrated plastic surgery residency programs have faculty with greater research productivity. This indicates a strong correlation between academic reputation and scholarly activity in these surgical training programs.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Plastic Surgery Research
- Academic Reputation
Background:
- Residency program reputation is influenced by factors like operative training, academic output, and location.
- The specific relationship between program reputation and faculty research productivity remains unclear.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the correlation between the academic reputation of integrated plastic surgery residency programs and the research productivity of their full-time faculty.
Main Methods:
- Utilized 2016 Doximity program rankings to categorize 67 integrated plastic surgery programs into quartiles.
- Identified 607 full-time faculty members and analyzed their publications from 2000-2015 via PubMed.
- Collected data on publication year, authorship position, and journal for each faculty member.
Main Results:
- Top-ranked programs (Q1) showed significantly higher mean faculty publications compared to lower-ranked programs.
- Faculty in higher-ranked programs were more likely to hold middle or last author positions in multi-author articles.
- Higher-ranked programs demonstrated a greater tendency to publish in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Conclusions:
- A significant correlation exists between the academic reputation of integrated plastic surgery residency programs and the scholarly output of their faculty.
- Faculty research productivity, including authorship position, is a key indicator of program standing.
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