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  • Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Academic Medicine
  • Surgical Workforce

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  • Cardiothoracic surgery faces significant physician shortages, projected to lose a quarter of its workforce by 2050.
  • International medical graduates (IMGs) could help mitigate these shortages, but their academic experiences are understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the research productivity, career progression, grant funding, and scholarly impact of IMGs in academic cardiothoracic surgery.
  • To compare the academic achievements of IMGs against non-IMGs in the field.

Main Methods:

  • A cohort of 1065 academic cardiothoracic surgeons in the US in 2020 was analyzed.
  • IMGs were defined as those completing medical school outside the US and Canada.
  • Propensity score matching was used to compare IMGs and non-IMGs based on attending start year.

Main Results:

  • IMGs constituted 24.0% of academic cardiothoracic surgeons and began their attending careers later than non-IMGs.
  • Unadjusted analyses showed IMGs had lower publication counts, H-index, R01 funding, and professor attainment.
  • After propensity score matching, IMGs and non-IMGs demonstrated similar publication counts, H-index, R01 funding rates, and full professor attainment.

Conclusions:

  • IMGs are a substantial and increasingly important part of the cardiothoracic surgery workforce.
  • Despite being a more junior cohort, IMGs achieve comparable academic success to their non-IMG counterparts when experience is controlled.
  • Streamlining IMGs' integration into US practice can address surgical shortages, boost academic diversity, and strengthen the field.