Abstract: Contributions of Plastic Surgery to Hospital Based, Pediatric Care in the United States, 2000–2012
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MATERIALS AND METHODS: The American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons (ACAPS) website was used to generate a list of all plastic surgery divisions/departments with residency programs. Scholarly metrics were determined for 955 faculty at the 88 ACGME plastic surgery departments and divisions with residency programs. The database was binned into tertiles by numbers of citations per department/division (high, H, medium, M, low, L). Characteristics were compared between these groups to identify the traits that set these programs apart.
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