TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic pursuits in board-certified reproductive endocrinologists
AU - Layman, Lawrence C.
AU - Feinberg, Eve C.
AU - Hurst, Bradley S.
AU - Morin, Scott J.
AU - Morris, Jamie L.
AU - Pisarska, Margareta D.
AU - Smith, Yolanda R.
AU - Price, Thomas M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the help of Dr. Richard S. Cameron, Ph.D. in the Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine/Cell Biology and Anatomy, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, for his expertise in medical education and guidance of the Discussion. The authors also thank Susanna Scarbrough, Member Group Administrator MHPG/SMRU/SREI and William W. Hurd, M.D. former Chief Medical Officer, at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine for their valuable help.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Society for Reproductive Medicine
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - Objective: To determine research interests of reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) physicians and assess their academic productivity. Design: A questionnaire composed by the Society for REI (SREI) board members was e-mailed to members. PubMed was queried to quantify peer-reviewed publications. Setting: An internal SREI questionnaire to members and online publication search. Patient(s): Not applicable. Intervention(s): Questions involving research being performed, funding, relevance to fellow thesis, and important areas of future research. Publications were ascertained in the past 3 years, past 10 years, and total publications for SREI members. Main Outcome Measure(s): Question responses and number of peer-reviewed publications. Result(s): Most respondents currently conduct research, which was predominantly clinical. One-third have current research funding and two-thirds were ever funded. One-third had a National Institutes of Health grant and about half were principal investigators. Two-thirds had a basic science fellow thesis and 44% of respondents perform research related to their fellowship thesis. Important research areas included infertility outcomes, implantation, preimplantation genetic testing, and genetics. In the past 3 years, SREI members published 3,408 peer-reviewed articles (mean ± standard deviation [SD], 4.4 ± 9.0). In the past 10 years, SREI members had 10,162 peer-reviewed publications (mean±SD, 13.0 ± 24.3). When all publications were considered, SREI members published 24,088 peer-reviewed articles (mean±SD, 30.9 ± 53.0). Conclusion(s): The REI fellows have learned to construct scientific articles, which will help them to better interpret the literature in the care of patients. The SREI members continue to pursue scientific investigation, commonly related to their fellowship thesis. Respondents support SREI funding research; the success of which should be judged by publications. Overall, SREI members have demonstrated significant academic productivity and published about 1,000 articles/year for the past 10 years, affirming the importance of research training.
AB - Objective: To determine research interests of reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) physicians and assess their academic productivity. Design: A questionnaire composed by the Society for REI (SREI) board members was e-mailed to members. PubMed was queried to quantify peer-reviewed publications. Setting: An internal SREI questionnaire to members and online publication search. Patient(s): Not applicable. Intervention(s): Questions involving research being performed, funding, relevance to fellow thesis, and important areas of future research. Publications were ascertained in the past 3 years, past 10 years, and total publications for SREI members. Main Outcome Measure(s): Question responses and number of peer-reviewed publications. Result(s): Most respondents currently conduct research, which was predominantly clinical. One-third have current research funding and two-thirds were ever funded. One-third had a National Institutes of Health grant and about half were principal investigators. Two-thirds had a basic science fellow thesis and 44% of respondents perform research related to their fellowship thesis. Important research areas included infertility outcomes, implantation, preimplantation genetic testing, and genetics. In the past 3 years, SREI members published 3,408 peer-reviewed articles (mean ± standard deviation [SD], 4.4 ± 9.0). In the past 10 years, SREI members had 10,162 peer-reviewed publications (mean±SD, 13.0 ± 24.3). When all publications were considered, SREI members published 24,088 peer-reviewed articles (mean±SD, 30.9 ± 53.0). Conclusion(s): The REI fellows have learned to construct scientific articles, which will help them to better interpret the literature in the care of patients. The SREI members continue to pursue scientific investigation, commonly related to their fellowship thesis. Respondents support SREI funding research; the success of which should be judged by publications. Overall, SREI members have demonstrated significant academic productivity and published about 1,000 articles/year for the past 10 years, affirming the importance of research training.
KW - REI fellows
KW - Reproductive endocrinology and infertility
KW - board-certified reproductive endocrinologists
KW - publication productivity
KW - research
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U2 - 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2019.10.037
DO - 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2019.10.037
M3 - Article
C2 - 32192598
AN - SCOPUS:85081691342
SN - 0015-0282
VL - 113
SP - 653-660.e1
JO - Fertility and Sterility
JF - Fertility and Sterility
IS - 3
ER -