Introduction: The Doximity Residency Navigator is currently the only resource that ranks plastic surgery residency programs. Given the paucity of objective program rankings, in this study, we devised a new algorithm to rank plastic surgery programs based on academic achievement of faculty members.Boyd,...
plastic surgery of the breast, and skin cancer reconstruction. He has won numerous teaching awards, was a residency program and fellowship director, and has presented and published his research extensively. His warm, honest, and caring bedside manner makes patients know they are in the hands of ...
Integrated plastic surgeryPublicationResidency matchh-IndexBACKGROUND :The academic productivity of an integrated plastic surgery applicant is strongly considered during the ranking process but is often difficult to assess. The h-index is a tool that provides an objective measure of both the quality ...
plastic surgery and are temporally associated with specific advantages in terms of residency placement, research productivity, and institutional standing.Level of Evidence VThis journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each submission to which Evidence-Based Medicine rankings are ...
Using the average rankings of program directors, 26 "core" skills were identified. There was agreement of core skills across all domains except for breast surgery and esthetic surgery. Of them, 7 skills were determined to be above the level of a trainee at this stage; a further 15 skills ...
In plastic surgery academia, research output is heavily used as a metric of accreditation, from assessing residency applicants to evaluating faculty for promotion. The h index, defined as an author's h papers with at least h citations, is commonly used as a measure of academic success. ...