Scholarship initiative program (SIP): Increasing scholarly activity in an orthopedic residency over a 8-year period

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jorep.2024.100322
• Publication Date: 2024-02-28T17:01:22Z
• Authors: Ivan Bandovic; James T. Layson; Jacob Waldron; Valerie Davidson; Adrian Olson; Adam Fahs; Paul W Knapp; Alan Afsari; Benjamin Best
• Keywords: Mentorship; Graduate medical education; Value (mathematics)

For many decades, a common Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) citation community based orthopaedic residency programs has been lack of scholarly activity. Many obstacles have cited in the literature low output scholarship, from mentoring and infrastructure, to perceived value research. In this paper we sought 1) describe interventions directed toward increasing activity through our scholarship initiative program (SIP), 2) provide an objective comparison items (SAI) between pre- post-intervention periods. The study period spanned 8 years, evenly split two: pre-intervention intervention date was July 1, 2018, marking hiring new director who implemented SIP. SIP included such as faculty recruitment, culture shift, mentorship, resource awareness utilization, quarterly research meetings, requirements, resident financial incentives, public recognition. When comparing periods, there were significant increases: presentations (12–76, p-value 0.028), peer-reviewed publications (3–43, 0.029), (4–84, unique (5–35, 0.027). There trend towards statistical significance (5–37, 0.055). higher Impact Factor journals published manuscripts (1.3–1.8), although not statistically significant. Implementation at small community-based significantly increased SAI post-implementation We recommend guide other seeking increase both SAI.