Bradford J Kim, MD, Casi Blanton, Mugdha M Joshi, MD, ... Gary L Dunnington, MD, FACS, ... Thomas E Kmiecik, PhD, Cynthia Barnard, MBA, Terri Halverson,.
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services on a total of 41,390 patients. They billed Medicare for $69.1 million in critical care services and were reimbursed $17.4 million (25.1%). Only 49.1% of surgeons trained in surgical critical care and 64.4% of surgeons trained in trauma and surgical critical care actually submitted charges to Medicare for critical care services, for an average of 528 work RVUs. CONCLUSIONS: Despite a shortage of available intensivists, surgeons trained in critical care appear to be either not attending to critically ill and injured patients in ICUs, or they are not properly billing Medicare for the services that they provide. Determining the Drivers of Academic Success in Surgery: An Analysis of 3,850 Faculty Nakul Valsangkar, MD, Teresa A Zimmers, PhD, Bradford J Kim, MD, Casi Blanton, Mugdha M Joshi, MD, Teresa M Bell, PhD, Attila Nakeeb, MD, FACS, Gary L Dunnington, MD, FACS, Leonidas G Koniaris, MD, MBA, FACS Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to determine drivers of academic productivity within US departments of surgery. METHODS: Eighty academic metrics for 3,850 faculty at the top 50 NIH-funded university- and 5 outstanding hospital-based surgical departments were collected using websites, SCOPUS, and NIH RePORTER. RESULTS: Mean faculty size was 76. Overall, there were 35.4% assistant, 27.2% associate, and 37.4% full professors. Women comprised 21.8%; 5.3% were MD-PhDs, and 6.3% were PhDs. By faculty rank, publications/citations were: assistant, 14/175; associate, 39/649; and full-professor, 97/2,250. General surgery contributed most publications and citations. Highest performing groups per person were: research (58/1,683); transplantation (52/ 1,067); oncology (51/1,179); and cardiothoracic surgery (48/ 860). Overall, 23.2% of faculty were principal investigators for current/former NIH grants, and 8.9% for a current or former R01/ U01/P01. The 10 most cited faculty (MCF) within each department contributed to 42% of all publications and 55% of all citations. The MCF were most commonly general (25%), oncologic (19%), or transplant surgeons (15%). Fifty-one percent of MCF had current/former NIH funding, compared with 20% of the rest (p
