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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2023 May 21;174(2):209–213. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2023.04.040

Table 2.

ACS Resident Awardee Demographics and Academic Achievement

Total Number 165
Female 45 (27%)
Degree
 MD/DO 127 (77%)
 MD/DO, MPH/MS/MA 8 (5%)
 MD/DO, MBA 3 (2%)
 MD/DO, PhD 26 (16%)
 MD/DO, PhD, MBA 1 (1%)
Completed Training at Time of Study 158 (96%)
Fellowship Specialty#
 No Fellowship 33 (21%)
 Surgical Oncology 11 (7%)
 Pediatric Surgery 26 (16%)
 Critical Care/Trauma 8 (5%)
 Abdominal Transplant/Hepatobiliary 12 (8%)
 Thoracic/Cardiac 24 (15%)
 Vascular 11 (7%)
 Minimally Invasive/Bariatric/Gastrointestinal 9 (6%)
 Spine/Neurosurgery 5 (3%)
 Plastics/Hand/Microsurgery 11 (7%)
 Colon/Rectal Surgery 3 (2%)
 Endocrine 3 (2%)
 Non-surgical fellowship 2 (1%)
Title#
 Professor 41 (26%)
 Associate Professor 30 (19%)
 Assistant Professor 32 (20%)
 Clinical Instructor 3 (2%)
 Non-Academic 52 (33%)
Division Chief Position# 33 (21%)
Department Chair Position# 24 (15%)
Median Number of Publications Prior to Award 0 (0–4)
Median Number of Publications Following Award 39 (16–99)
Median Number of Citations 1,386 (379–3,460)
Median H-Index 16 (9–30)
Awarded K08 or K23# 18 (11%)
Awarded R01# 28 (18%)
#

Results only include awardees that have completed training

Categorical variables represented as n (%). Continuous variables represented as median (interquartile range).