TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving the Care of Our Patients
T2 - Twenty-Three Years of the James Barrett Brown Resident Research Day
AU - Linkugel, Andrew D.
AU - MacKinnon, Susan E.
AU - Snyder-Warwick, Alison K.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (K08NS096232; to A.K.S.-W.). The remaining authors have nothing to disclose.
Publisher Copyright:
© Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023/7/1
Y1 - 2023/7/1
N2 - Background James Barrett Brown was one of the founders of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as a specialty in the United States. Susan Mackinnon started the James Barrett Brown Resident Research Day in 1997 in his honor to serve as an annual opportunity for trainees to present their research to the Division and a visiting contemporary leader in plastic surgery. We sought to determine the proportion of Resident Research Day projects that have progressed to publication. Methods Available internal records from 1998 to 2019 were used to identify presenters and projects. Academic productivity of presenters was estimated with the h-index from the Scopus database. Results One hundred forty-five students, residents, and fellows presented 276 projects at Resident Research Day from 1998 to 2019. These presentations were associated with 144 unique peer-reviewed publications, representing 52% of the presented projects. They were published an average of 1.8 years after presentation, and the presenter was the first or last author on 67% of them. The current average h-index of trainees who published at least 1 project (8.3) is significantly higher than the h-index of those who did not (5.0, P < 0.001). Conclusions The James Barrett Brown Resident Research Day not only honors the legacy of Brown but also enhances scholarly activity of trainees. The opportunity to present and publish research teaches project planning, implementation, and data analysis, followed by manuscript preparation and the publication process. This important skill set can provide the foundation for the academic careers of future leaders in plastic surgery.
AB - Background James Barrett Brown was one of the founders of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as a specialty in the United States. Susan Mackinnon started the James Barrett Brown Resident Research Day in 1997 in his honor to serve as an annual opportunity for trainees to present their research to the Division and a visiting contemporary leader in plastic surgery. We sought to determine the proportion of Resident Research Day projects that have progressed to publication. Methods Available internal records from 1998 to 2019 were used to identify presenters and projects. Academic productivity of presenters was estimated with the h-index from the Scopus database. Results One hundred forty-five students, residents, and fellows presented 276 projects at Resident Research Day from 1998 to 2019. These presentations were associated with 144 unique peer-reviewed publications, representing 52% of the presented projects. They were published an average of 1.8 years after presentation, and the presenter was the first or last author on 67% of them. The current average h-index of trainees who published at least 1 project (8.3) is significantly higher than the h-index of those who did not (5.0, P < 0.001). Conclusions The James Barrett Brown Resident Research Day not only honors the legacy of Brown but also enhances scholarly activity of trainees. The opportunity to present and publish research teaches project planning, implementation, and data analysis, followed by manuscript preparation and the publication process. This important skill set can provide the foundation for the academic careers of future leaders in plastic surgery.
KW - peer-reviewed publication
KW - plastic surgery education
KW - plastic surgery history
KW - plastic surgery residency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85164753321&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1097/SAP.0000000000003619
DO - 10.1097/SAP.0000000000003619
M3 - Article
C2 - 37450856
AN - SCOPUS:85164753321
SN - 0148-7043
VL - 91
SP - 8
EP - 11
JO - Annals of Plastic Surgery
JF - Annals of Plastic Surgery
IS - 1
ER -