APM perspectivePublications by Students Doing a Year of Full-Time Research: What Are Realistic Expectations?
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Methods
CRTP fellows are selected through a competitive application process. During their participation in the program, they live on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. A senior physician-scientist serves as the fellow's advisor and helps to identify a mentor in his or her area of interest. One year of clinical rotations is a prerequisite for applicants to maximize the fellow's ability to understand the link between clinical research and medicine. Participation is thus restricted to individuals who have
How Many Participating Fellows Publish Their Work?
First, we established the number of publications by program participants 18 months after completion of the research year, a time point that we felt would have allowed most of the fellows who intended to publish their results sufficient time to submit a manuscript and receive a response. Between 2001 and 2004, 217 fellows completing CRTP or DDCRF, generated 224 publications. Fifty-one percent (n = 109) of the fellows from the classes of 2001-2002, 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 published at least 1
When Do Fellows Begin to Publish?
The majority of students participate in CRTP or DDCRF following their third year of medical school and therefore interview for residencies within 6 months of completing their research fellowship. However, only 32% of the 224 articles in print at 18 months appeared within 6 months of completing the fellowship. Overall, only 23% of fellows had at least 1 publication by 6 months post-fellowship of which 58% of publications were first authorship (Figure 3). Therefore, most (approximately
Conclusions
Recent data have shown that medical students completing 1-year research fellowships were more successful at obtaining post-doctoral funding and a faculty position which included a research component,4, 5 CRTP and DDCRF were created to enable more students to have a research experience, hopefully increasing the number of physician-scientists conducting basic or clinical research. As the programs become better known, it is likely that greater numbers of students will apply. Many of them will
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