Pre-residency research productivity and its impact on admission to top-tier U.S. residency programs: a meta-analysis across specialties in surgical education.

BMC Med Educ · 2025 · PMC12764101 · PMID 41299588

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Figure 5 B (Reputation Ranking: First-Author Publications) showed reduced heterogeneity (I 2 = 99.52% → 59.13%) and borderline significance (OR = 1.29, 95% CI: 0.98–1.69, p = 0.07).

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