Open AccessAcademic Productivity of Directors of ACGME-Accredited Residency Programs in Surgery and Anesthesiology
Author(s) -
Deborah J. Culley,
Brenda G. Fahy,
Zhongcong Xie,
Robert W. Lekowski,
Sascha Buetler,
Xiaoxia Liu,
Neal H. Cohen,
Gregory Crosby
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e3182a8fab5
Subject(s) - accreditation , graduate medical education , anesthesiology , medicine , medical education , certification , board certification , family medicine , productivity , residency training , management , anesthesia , continuing education , economics , macroeconomics
Scholarly activity is expected of program directors of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited residency training programs. Anesthesiology residency programs are cited more often than surgical programs for deficiencies in academic productivity. We hypothesized that this may in part reflect differences in scholarly activity between program directors of anesthesiology and surgical trainings programs. To test the hypothesis, we examined the career track record of current program directors of ACGME-accredited anesthesiology and surgical residency programs at the same institutions using PubMed citations and funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as metrics of scholarly activity.