Competing Risks Analysis of Promotion and Attrition in Academic Medicine: A National Study of U.S. Medical School Graduates.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Competing risk methodology was used to identify variables associated with promotion and attrition of newly appointed full-time instructors or assistant professors in U.S. MD-granting medical schools.

Method

A national sample of U.S. MD-granting medical school graduates in calendar years 1997-2004 who received initial full-time instructor or assistant professor appointments from January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2012, was followed through December 31, 2013. Adjusted proportional subdistribution hazard ratios (aSHRs) measured the effects of demographic, educational, and institutional variables on promotion and attrition.

Results

The final study sample included 27,219 full-time instructors (n = 10,470) and assistant professors (n = 16,749). In all models (enti

SUBMITTER: Jeffe DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6351173 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature