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<jats:title>Purpose</jats:title>
<jats:p>The extent of medical trainees’ engagement in scholarly medical education publication is not well described. This study sought to quantify the prevalence of medical student- and resident-authored medical education publications over 15 years, a benchmark essential for understanding current and future trends in trainee scholarship.</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Method</jats:title>
<jats:p>Of 91 identified journals, 16 met inclusion criteria as indexed general medical education journals. Only <jats:italic toggle="yes">Academic Medicine</jats:italic> provided complete author role information, allowing identification of medical student and resident authors. The authors retrospectively compiled and analyzed citation records from <jats:italic toggle="yes">Academic Medicine</jats:italic> from 2002 to 2016, tracking trainee authorship, author position, and publication type.</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Results</jats:title>
<jats:p>A total of 6,280 publications were identified, of which 4,635 publications, by 16,068 authors, met inclusion criteria. Trainees were 6.0% (966/16,068) of all authors and authored 14.5% (673/4,635) of all publications. Trainee authorship rates varied by publication type: Trainees authored 33.3% (160/480) of medical humanities publications versus 6.9% (27/392) of commentaries. From 2002–2004 to 2014–2016, the proportion of authors who were trainees increased from 3.9% (73/1,853) to 7.1% (330/4,632) (<jats:italic toggle="yes">P</jats:italic> < .001 for trend). Over the same period, the percentage of trainee-authored publications increased: 9.4% (58/620) to 18.8% (225/1,199) (<jats:italic toggle="yes">P</jats:italic> < .001 for trend), driven primarily by increased trainee first authorship.</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title>
<jats:p>Trainees constitute a small but growing proportion of authors and authored publications in <jats:italic toggle="yes">Academic Medicine</jats:italic>. Further work is needed to understand what trainee-, institutional-, and journal-level factors contribute to this trend, and whether similar increases in trainee authorship are occurring in other journals and fields.</jats:p>
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