Faculty Promotion and Attrition: The Importance of Coauthor Network Reach at an Academic Medical Center

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 60-67

  Warner, Erica T ^a,b   Carapinha, René ^a   Weber, Griffin M ^c,d   Hill, Emorcia V ^a   Reede, Joan Y ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

careers; faculty development; promotion; retention

Indexed keywords

CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MODEL; POPULATION MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; RISK FACTOR; UNIVERSITY; ADULT; CAREER MOBILITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; CAREER MOBILITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84953273895     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-015-3463-7     Document Type: Article

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