Table 3.

Fulfilling ACS research requirements

	All	Academic	Non-academic	P
Method of fulfillment, total responses	n = 29	n = 23	n = 6	1.00
Traditional 20-publications	21 (72%)	17 (74%)	4 (67%)
Alternate 10-publications and scholarly activity	8 (28%)	6 (26%)	2 (33%)
Scholarly activities used in alternate route, total responses	n = 8	n = 6	n = 2
Resident participation in mentoring scholarly activity (e.g., resident paper competitions)	8 (100%)	6 (100%)	2 (100%)	–
Dissemination of knowledge (e.g., review articles, book chapters)	7 (88%)	5 (83%)	2 (100%)	1.00
Leadership in major trauma organizations	6 (75%)	4 (67%)	2 (100%)	1.00
Participation as visiting professor or invited lecturer	6 (75%)	5 (83%)	1 (50%)	0.46
Scholarly application of knowledge (e.g., case reports)	5 (63%)	4 (67%)	1 (50%)	1.00
Mentorship of fellows and maintenance of fellowships	4 (50%)	2 (33%)	2 (100%)	0.43
Peer-reviewed funding	3 (38%)	3 (50%)	0 (0%)	0.46
Barriers to 20-publication route, total responses	n = 9	n = 6	n = 3
Lack of dedicated research time of clinicians	6 (67%)	4 (67%)	2 (67%)	1.00
Lack of support staff dedicated to research	2 (22%)	1 (17%)	1 (33%)	1.00
Lack of interest of participation of a sufficient number of clinicians	2 (22%)	1 (17%)	1 (33%)	1.00
Lack of compensation for scholarly activities or time spent on research	1 (11%)	0 (0%)	1 (33%)	0.33
Specialties represented in publications, total responses	n = 28	n = 22	n = 6
Trauma surgery	28 (100%)	22 (100%)	6 (100%)	–
Orthopedic surgery	23 (82%)	20 (91%)	3 (50%)	0.05
Critical care/critical care surgery	22 (79%)	17 (77%)	5 (83%)	1.00
Emergency medicine	21 (75%)	17 (77%)	4 (67%)	0.62
Neurosurgery	18 (64%)	16 (73%)	2 (33%)	0.15
Basic sciences	12 (43%)	9 (41%)	3 (50%)	1.00
Radiology	9 (32%)	7 (32%)	2 (33%)	1.00
Nursing	9 (32%)	4 (18%)	5 (83%)	< 0.01
Vascular surgery	6 (21%)	6 (27%)	0 (0%)	0.29
Anesthesia	3 (11%)	3 (14%)	0 (0%)	1.00
Cardiothoracic surgery	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	–

Bolding of P values indicates statistical significance at a threshold of P ≤ 0.05