Leadership of United States Academic Anesthesiology Programs 2006: Chairperson Characteristics and Accomplishments

Abstract

The survey suggests that anesthesiology chairs value peer-reviewed research, scholarship, and academic achievement, but do not believe that significant research experience is of great benefit to functioning as a chair.

Leadership and management of academic anesthesiology departments in the United States

“…Program director status was determined from Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education databases. These data were compared with survey data using Fisher's exact test [3], and they were also previously reported [2], showing that respondent data and independent data were not different (Table 1).…”

“…Culley et al [9] demonstrated that anesthesia chairs, when compared with surgical chairs, have less NIH grant funding (30% vs. 60%) and PubMed citation rates (50 ± 51 vs. 133 ± 98), respectively, over the duration of their careers. Another reason the respondents considered "fostering research and scholarship" as the most difficult management challenge, may be that they ranked as least important in preparation to be a chair "establishing a research center with the goal of NIH funding" [2]. This suggests that they may not have developed the skills to foster research and scholarship within their departments.…”

“…The survey methodology was reported previously and is here reproduced in brief [2]. The survey received exempt status from the Penn State College of Medicine Institutional Review Board.…”

“…A survey was conducted both to explore and characterize the approach that current anesthesia chairs in the United States have taken in leading and managing their departments. The characteristics and accomplishments of the chairpersons who responded to this survey are summarized elsewhere [2].…”

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“…Sur cet emploi, le candidat tire aujourd'hui profit pour densifier la liste de ses travaux mais cette position devrait constituer é galement une opportunité pour inté grer un projet professionnel structuré de formation et de mise en responsabilité managé riale. Il est inté ressant de souligner qu'aux É tats-Unis, les chefs de service d'anesthé sie des structures universitaires considè rent que l'é tape la plus formatrice dans leur parcours est d'avoir occupé , pré alablement à leurs fonctions actuelles, un poste de responsabilité s couvrant les champs cliniques, administratifs, pé dagogiques et de recherche au sein d'une structure d'anesthé sie [6].…”