• Brenda G Fahy, Deborah J Culley, Mohammed Almualim, Barbara Flores González, Rogerio Almeida Moreno Santos, Peggy White, and Terrie Vasilopoulos.
• Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, PO Box 100254, Gainesville, FL 32610-0254, USA. Electronic address: bfahy@anest.ufl.edu.
• J Crit Care. 2021 Jun 1; 63: 139-145.

PurposeAccreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) program director (PD) qualifications includes scholarly activity with demonstrated academic productivity and dissemination. Our hypothesis: academic productivity among adult critical care medicine (CCM) fellowship PDs is affected by gender with women having lower productivity.Materials And MethodsPDs in 39 institutions with CCM fellowships in anesthesiology, surgery, and pulmonary medicine were analyzed using data from ACGME website, PubMed, and NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools. Primary outcomes were total publications and h-index. Secondary outcomes included NIH funding and past five year publications. Independent variables and covariates included gender, academic rank, year appointed as program director, years certified in CCM, and specialty.ResultsPDs who were women had fewer total publications (median: 13 vs: 20, p = 0.030), past 5 years publications (median: 6 vs median: 9; p = 0.025), and less NIH funding (12% vs 32%; p = 0.046) compared to men. In exploratory analyses stratified by rank, assistant professor ranked women had fewer total (p = 0.027) and recent publications (p = 0.031) compared to men.ConclusionsWomen who were PDs had fewer publications and less NIH funding compared to men with differences in publications more prominent in early career faculty.Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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