Key factors for enhancing academic productivity and fostering mentorship in spine research: the Cleveland Clinic Center for Spine Health approach to sustaining success

Clinical research has always been a fundamental necessity for the medical profession. Advancing our knowledge base to ensure we are providing the best possible care to our patients is dogmatically engrained in us. This research often requires painstaking effort and commitment. Consequently, both individual surgeons and whole institutions alike are judged by, and at times compensated according to, the amount and quality of research they perform [3,4,7]. Even medical students ’ candidacies for residency are heavily influenced by their research, particularly in highly competitive surgical subspecialties, such as orthopedic surgery and neurological surgery [1,2,8-11].
Source: The Spine Journal - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Perspective Source Type: research