VIDEO: Research productivity in hand surgery fellowships correlated with industry support
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Key takeaways:
- Individual physician research productivity had a weak positive correlation with lifetime income.
- Combined fellowship research productivity had a moderately positive correlation with combined earnings.
SAN FRANCISCO — Results presented here showed a correlation between research productivity of hand surgery fellowship programs and individual academic hand surgeons with overall industry support from indirect research funding.
“As we might expect, research funding would correlate with H-index. But what we are showing here is for the supplemental income, including royalties and consulting fees – not research fees, these can also be associated with overall research productivity as measured through H-index,” Albert T. Anastasio, PGY-5 at Duke University, told Healio about results presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting. “We do feel that further work is required to better understand both the advantages and disadvantages of this industry support of academic productivity and to see whether or not this relationship is overall beneficial in leading to new innovation or if there is potential conflict of interest going on at some of these institutions.”
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Baumann A, et al. Paper 238. Presented at: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting; Feb. 12-16, 2024; San Francisco.
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