MD 46% birth. CNM 34% J T Parer RN/NP 20% - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Forty Years

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Child- birth….

J T Parer June, 2016

AIM Attendees 2015

Total 350

• MD 46%
• CNM 34%
• RN/NP 20%

AIM Invited National Speakers

1976: Steven Gabbe 1983: Denys Court Sturla Eik-Nes 1985: Jef Ferguson Kent Ueland Jack Schneider 1986: EJ Quilligan 1987: EJ Quilligan Jon Weiss 1988: Roger Freeman Richard Depp 1990: Frank Boehm Tom Garite 1991: Mike Nageotte Roy Petrie 1992: Steve Clark John Morrison 1993: Roger Freeman John Huddleston 1994: Watson Bowes Manuel Porto 1995: Larry Gilstrap Thomas Moore 1996: Robert Resnik Michael Socol 1997: Steven Gabbe Michael Divon 1998: John Hauth Michael Ross 1999: Thomas Benedetti Richard Depp 2000: Thomas Garite Steven Clark 2001: Thomas Goodwin Tony Vintzileos 2002: Roger Newman Deborah Wing EJ Quilligan 2003: Gary Hankins 2004: Gary Dildy Sarah Kilpatrick 2005: Steve Caritis Michael Nageotte 2006: Alan Peaceman 2007: Michael Belfort David Lucchese 2008: Thomas Moore Ronald Wapner 2009: Michael Belfort Dena Towner 2010: William Grobman Deborah Wing 2011: Brian Mercer David Miller 2012: Sean Blackwell Sarah Kilpatrick 2013: Sean Esplin Alison Cahill 2014: Jeffrey Ecker Kim Gregory 2015: George Saade Cynthia Gyamfi Bannerman 2016: Deborah Wing Steven Clark Holly Kennedy

Quantitation of scholarship and academic achievement

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Where are they now?

• Journal Editors
• Book Editors
• Division Directors
• Chairs
• Deans
• Chancellors
• Presidents

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The Gold Standard in academia…. ….is publication of research findings in scholarly journals And how do we assess the quality or importance of these scholarly journals?

By name dropping?

"I had a patient a number of years ago, in Boston — I wrote about the case in the New England Journal of Medicine. It was a girl the same age as your patient here. She was walking to the university when someone shot her with a

• crossbow. The arrow entered at the outside edge of her left eyebrow and went

straight through her head, exiting from almost the middle of the back of her neck." "And she survived?"

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By holding a Press Conference?

How do we quantitate the value of the scholarly journals?

Journal Impact Factor IF for 2015 = A/B

A = number of papers published in the Journal in 2013 & 2014 B = number of times those papers were cited in indexed scholarly journals in 2015

• Most journals have an IF of 1-5, meaning

that if they publish 100 papers in a 2 year period, they are cited 100-500 times

• Online junk journals, proliferating and

profitable, with dodgy peer-review, are about IF 0.3, meaning….

• Super journals, eg Nature, Science, Cell,

have IF ca 30

• Some Chairs insist their Faculty achieve

8 IFs per year

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The online journals, open access, “peer reviewed” with page charges up to $1000

• Titles with variations on the theme of

Obstetrics, Gynecology, International, Research, Open, Journal, Review…. (n=5000)

• Consider “Cogent Medicine” (n=50,000)

Possible synonyms: Compelling, Conclusive, Convincing, Decisive, Effective, Forceful, Persuasive, Satisfying, Strong, Telling….

• Add country of orign to title: n= 10 mill, or 107

For NEJM, IF is 56 So, if NEJM published 100 papers in 2013 & 2014, the total citations for all of them was 5,600!

N Engl J Med 2015; 373:2642-2653 December 31, 2015 N Engl J Med 2015; 373:2642-2653 December 31, 2015

Aaron B. Caughey, MD, PhD

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Mary E. Norton, MD

J Midwifery Women's Health. 2007 May-Jun;52(3):308-9.

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In the next 40 years....

• The mathematics
• The objective evidence
• The subjective evidence
• The culture
• The poetry
• And the beauty….

….OF THE BIRTH OF INFANTS

THANK YOU!

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N Engl J Med 2015; 373:2642-2653 December 31, 2015