Academic achievement and gender among adult critical care program directors

• Published in: Journal of critical care 2021-06, Vol.63, p.139-145
• Main Authors: Fahy, Brenda G., Culley, Deborah J., Almualim, Mohammed, González, Barbara Flores, Santos, Rogerio Almeida Moreno, White, Peggy, Vasilopoulos, Terrie
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Accreditation; Anesthesiology; Bibliometrics; Career development planning; Careers; College professors; Critical care; Fellowship and scholarship; Funding; Gender differences; Gender equity; Graduate medical education; Hirsch index; Human; Internal medicine; Medical schools; Medicine; Productivity; Pulmonology; Regression analysis; Surgery; Websites; Woman; Women; Womens health
• ISSN: 0883-9441; 1557-8615
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2020.09.022

Accreditation 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. PDs 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. PDs 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. Women who were PDs had fewer publications and less NIH funding compared to men with differences in publications more prominent in early career faculty. •Fellowship program directors who were women had fewer publications than men.•Fellowship program directors who were women had less NIH funding than men.•Assistant professor ranked women had fewer total and recent publications than men.