The journal of education in perioperative medicine : JEPM
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J Educ Perioper Med · Jul 2017
Fellowships Represent a Logical Target for Cultivating Research in Academic Anesthesiology.
The need for greater emphasis on research contributions in academic anesthesiology has been widely recognized in recent years. Some propose increasing integration of research, including dedicated research time, into ACGME requirements for residency and fellowship training experiences. The h-index, an effective measure of research productivity that takes into account relevance and impact of an author's contributions on discourse within a field, was used to examine whether there are differences in research productivity between non-fellowship and fellowship-trained faculty in academic anesthesiology departments. This bibliometric was further used to examine differences in subspecialties, and other specialties of medicine. ⋯ Scholarly productivity, as measured by the h-index was similar for fellowship and non-fellowship trained anesthesiologists.