A Surgical Collaborative to Empower Medical Student Research

Spoorthi Kamepalli; Joseph R Junkin; Syed S Bakhtiyar; Ashley Montgomery; Michael DiLeo; Thao N Galván; John A Goss; Abbas A Rana

doi:10.1097/AS9.0000000000000390

A Surgical Collaborative to Empower Medical Student Research

Ann Surg Open. 2024 Feb 9;5(1):e390. doi: 10.1097/AS9.0000000000000390. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Authors

Spoorthi Kamepalli¹, Joseph R Junkin¹, Syed S Bakhtiyar², Ashley Montgomery¹, Michael DiLeo¹, Thao N Galván¹, John A Goss¹, Abbas A Rana¹

Affiliations

¹ From the Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
² Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO.

Abstract

Mini abstracts: Faculty at the Baylor College of Medicine have developed a flexible research collaborative through which students gain research skills and individualized mentorship. This division has produced 86 trainee first author publications, 64 manuscripts by 34 different medical students with an average Scimago Journal Rank of 1.293 (range: 1.035-1.551) since 2015.

Keywords: academic medicine; medical students; mentored research; surgical research.