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Trends in leadership at breast surgical oncology fellowships
INTRODUCTION: Breast surgical oncology is a defined sub-specialty of general surgery that focuses on the surgical management of breast disease and malignancy within a multidisciplinary context. The fellowship directors (FD) that lead these programs have been selected for their abilities. As programs...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9555692/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38013714 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44186-022-00046-9 |
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author | Schachner, Benjamin Fanfan, Dino Zippi, Zachary Moore, Jessica Balch, Charles M. Klimberg, V. Suzanne |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Breast surgical oncology is a defined sub-specialty of general surgery that focuses on the surgical management of breast disease and malignancy within a multidisciplinary context. The fellowship directors (FD) that lead these programs have been selected for their abilities. As programs do research to ensure proper training for the next generation of breast surgical oncologists, we wanted to look into the FDs responsible for their training. METHODS: The Breast Surgical Oncology care program list was compiled via the Society of Surgical Oncology and American Society of Breast Surgeons Accredited programs (n = 60). The demographic information that was of interest included, but was not limited to, gender, age, ethnicity/background, past residency training, past fellowship training, year graduated from residency and fellowship, year since graduation to FD appointment, time at institution till FD appointment, and Hirsch index (h-index). RESULTS: Data were collected on all 60 FDs. The average age of FDs was 52 years old, 27% of FDs are men and 73% of FDs are women. The average H-index, number of publications, and number of citations were 19, 67, and 2648, respectively. The mean graduation year from residency was 2003, and from fellowship was 2006; with a mean of 9 years post fellowship graduation until becoming an FD. The most frequently attended residency was Rush (n = 4), and the most common fellowships were Memorial Sloan Kettering (n = 8), MD Anderson Cancer Center (n = 7), and John Wayne Cancer Institute (n = 4). Nine of the FDs stayed at the same institution after doing both residency and fellowship there (15%). CONCLUSION: This is the first study to examine the demographics of those in FD positions in Surgical Breast Oncology, which is a relatively young fellowship. We found that FDs in Breast Surgical Oncology are defined by their high output of research. This qualification may be why the average age, and the number of years to FD are higher compared to other specialties where this research has been undertaken. Initial evaluation of FDs suggest more diversity in this field is needed. Further insight into the leaders training our next generation of surgeons is warranted. |
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spelling | pubmed-95556922022-10-13 Trends in leadership at breast surgical oncology fellowships Schachner, Benjamin Fanfan, Dino Zippi, Zachary Moore, Jessica Balch, Charles M. Klimberg, V. Suzanne Global Surg Educ Original Article INTRODUCTION: Breast surgical oncology is a defined sub-specialty of general surgery that focuses on the surgical management of breast disease and malignancy within a multidisciplinary context. The fellowship directors (FD) that lead these programs have been selected for their abilities. As programs do research to ensure proper training for the next generation of breast surgical oncologists, we wanted to look into the FDs responsible for their training. METHODS: The Breast Surgical Oncology care program list was compiled via the Society of Surgical Oncology and American Society of Breast Surgeons Accredited programs (n = 60). The demographic information that was of interest included, but was not limited to, gender, age, ethnicity/background, past residency training, past fellowship training, year graduated from residency and fellowship, year since graduation to FD appointment, time at institution till FD appointment, and Hirsch index (h-index). RESULTS: Data were collected on all 60 FDs. The average age of FDs was 52 years old, 27% of FDs are men and 73% of FDs are women. The average H-index, number of publications, and number of citations were 19, 67, and 2648, respectively. The mean graduation year from residency was 2003, and from fellowship was 2006; with a mean of 9 years post fellowship graduation until becoming an FD. The most frequently attended residency was Rush (n = 4), and the most common fellowships were Memorial Sloan Kettering (n = 8), MD Anderson Cancer Center (n = 7), and John Wayne Cancer Institute (n = 4). Nine of the FDs stayed at the same institution after doing both residency and fellowship there (15%). CONCLUSION: This is the first study to examine the demographics of those in FD positions in Surgical Breast Oncology, which is a relatively young fellowship. We found that FDs in Breast Surgical Oncology are defined by their high output of research. This qualification may be why the average age, and the number of years to FD are higher compared to other specialties where this research has been undertaken. Initial evaluation of FDs suggest more diversity in this field is needed. Further insight into the leaders training our next generation of surgeons is warranted. Springer US 2022-10-12 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9555692/ /pubmed/38013714 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44186-022-00046-9 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Association for Surgical Education 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Schachner, Benjamin Fanfan, Dino Zippi, Zachary Moore, Jessica Balch, Charles M. Klimberg, V. Suzanne Trends in leadership at breast surgical oncology fellowships |
title | Trends in leadership at breast surgical oncology fellowships |
title_full | Trends in leadership at breast surgical oncology fellowships |
title_fullStr | Trends in leadership at breast surgical oncology fellowships |
title_full_unstemmed | Trends in leadership at breast surgical oncology fellowships |
title_short | Trends in leadership at breast surgical oncology fellowships |
title_sort | trends in leadership at breast surgical oncology fellowships |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9555692/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38013714 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44186-022-00046-9 |
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