Productivity and career paths of previous recipients of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine research grant awards.
OBJECTIVE
The objective was to assess productivity of previous recipients of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) grant awards.


METHODS
All previous recipients of SAEM Research Training Grants, Neuroscience Research Awards, Scholarly Sabbatical Awards, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Research Fellowship awards funded through 2004 were identified through SAEM's records and surveyed. Award categories assessed were those still offered by SAEM at the time of the survey and therefore excluded the Geriatric Research Award. The 2005-2006 SAEM Grants Committee developed a survey using previous publications assessing productivity of training grants and fellowship awards and refined it through consensus review and limited pilot testing. We assessed measures of academic productivity (numbers of publications and additional grants awarded), commitment to an academic career, satisfaction with the SAEM award, and basic demographic information.


RESULTS
Overall response rate was 70%; usable data were returned by all seven Research Training Grant awardees, both Neuroscience awardees, four of five Scholarly Sabbatical awardees, and six of 14 EMS Research Fellowship awardees. Of those who gave demographic information, 78% (14/18) were male and 94% (16/17) were non-Hispanic white. All the respondents remained in academics, and 14 of 19 felt that they will definitely be in academics 5 years from the time of the survey. They have a median of 1.8 original research publications per year since the end of their grant period, and 74% (14/19) have received subsequent federal funding. All found the SAEM award to be helpful or very helpful to their careers.


CONCLUSIONS
Previous recipients of the SAEM grant awards show evidence of academic productivity in the form of subsequent grant funding and research publications, and the majority remain committed to and satisfied with their academic research careers.
Young
Kelly D
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Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. kyoung@emedharbor.edu
D001363:Awards and Prizes; D002321:Career Choice; D002322:Career Mobility; D004526:Efficiency; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006801:Humans; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States