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Pearls of wisdom for aspiring physician-scientist residency applicants and program directors.

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Gallagher, EJ; Rockey, DC; Kontos, CD; Vyas, JM; Brass, LF; Hu, PJ; Isales, CM; Ajijola, OA; Rathmell, WK; Conlin, PR; Baiocchi, RA ...
Published in: JCI Insight
March 22, 2022

Postgraduate physician-scientist training programs (PSTPs) enhance the experiences of physician-scientist trainees following medical school graduation. PSTPs usually span residency and fellowship training, but this varies widely by institution. Applicant competitiveness for these programs would be enhanced, and unnecessary trainee anxiety relieved, by a clear understanding of what factors define a successful PSTP matriculant. Such information would also be invaluable to PSTP directors and would allow benchmarking of their admissions processes with peer programs. We conducted a survey of PSTP directors across the US to understand the importance they placed on components of PSTP applications. Of 41 survey respondents, most were from internal medicine and pediatrics residency programs. Of all components in the application, two elements were considered very important by a majority of PSTP directors: (a) having one or more first-author publications and (b) the thesis advisor's letter. Less weight was consistently placed on factors often considered more relevant for non-physician-scientist postgraduate applicants - such as US Medical Licensing Examination scores, awards, and leadership activities. The data presented here highlight important metrics for PSTP applicants and directors and suggest that indicators of scientific productivity and commitment to research outweigh traditional quantitative measures of medical school performance.

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JCI Insight

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EISSN

2379-3708

Publication Date

March 22, 2022

Volume

7

Issue

6

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Research Personnel
  • Physicians
  • Internship and Residency
  • Humans
  • Fellowships and Scholarships
  • Child
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
 

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Gallagher, E. J., Rockey, D. C., Kontos, C. D., Vyas, J. M., Brass, L. F., Hu, P. J., … Williams, C. S. (2022). Pearls of wisdom for aspiring physician-scientist residency applicants and program directors. JCI Insight, 7(6). https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.158467
Gallagher, Emily J., Don C. Rockey, Christopher D. Kontos, Jatin M. Vyas, Lawrence F. Brass, Patrick J. Hu, Carlos M. Isales, et al. “Pearls of wisdom for aspiring physician-scientist residency applicants and program directors.JCI Insight 7, no. 6 (March 22, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.158467.
Gallagher EJ, Rockey DC, Kontos CD, Vyas JM, Brass LF, Hu PJ, et al. Pearls of wisdom for aspiring physician-scientist residency applicants and program directors. JCI Insight. 2022 Mar 22;7(6).
Gallagher, Emily J., et al. “Pearls of wisdom for aspiring physician-scientist residency applicants and program directors.JCI Insight, vol. 7, no. 6, Mar. 2022. Pubmed, doi:10.1172/jci.insight.158467.
Gallagher EJ, Rockey DC, Kontos CD, Vyas JM, Brass LF, Hu PJ, Isales CM, Ajijola OA, Rathmell WK, Conlin PR, Baiocchi RA, Kazmierczak BI, Akabas MH, Williams CS. Pearls of wisdom for aspiring physician-scientist residency applicants and program directors. JCI Insight. 2022 Mar 22;7(6).

Published In

JCI Insight

DOI

EISSN

2379-3708

Publication Date

March 22, 2022

Volume

7

Issue

6

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Research Personnel
  • Physicians
  • Internship and Residency
  • Humans
  • Fellowships and Scholarships
  • Child
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences