J Extra Corpor Technol 2024 , 56 , 34 – 36 Ó The Author ( s ), published by EDP Sciences , 2024 https :// doi . org / 10.1051 / ject / 2024012
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EDITORIAL
New Graduates Encouraged to Submit their Work for Publication
Its graduation season for many US perfusion schools as I am writing this , a time of celebration for the graduates and their families ! For me , as a perfusion program director , I am always brimming with pride as I hood my graduates ( Figure 1 ).
Figure 1 . University of Arizona Perfusion Sciences Class of 2024 . L-R : Michelle Tigrero , Tylyn Simpson , Madison ( Sonny ) Lynch and program director , Dr . Raymond K . Wong .
They and all other perfusion graduates have overcome many escalating challenges that faculty and preceptors have thrown their way during our training programs in order to shape our trainees to be the best possible new perfusionists they can be . In addition to their didactic and clinical coursework , many motivated and driven students often complete impressive capstone / thesis projects during their time in school . This spring , I was fortunate to attend three major perfusion meetings in the US , the American Academy of Cardiovascular Perfusionists , the American Society of ExtraCorporeal Technology and the Sanibel Symposium . Students presented their work at each of these meetings . Under the guidance of their mentors , some of this work were impressive and definitely worthy of publication ! Unfortunately , sometimes this final act of scholarly activity to permanently document one ’ s work in the literature can fall by the wayside for any number of reasons . These include burnout from school , excitement to start their new careers , challenges of a new steep learning curve as independent clinicians , workload at their new places of employment , focus on national board exam preparations , etc . I get it !
However , graduating seniors should know that having worked so hard to generate data or scour the literature for new insights , adding your work to the perfusion knowledge base can have unexpected , lasting impacts . At a couple of the conferences I attended this year , I presented updates on how JECT has been faring and one of my slides contained two examples of review articles written by former perfusion graduates ( Table 1 ).
Cory Alwardt wrote a review article on anesthesia drugs and practices in cardiac surgery in 2005 [ 1 ], and Samira Najmaii wrote one on intraoperative management of glucose to treat the hyperglycemic effects of cardiopulmonary bypass in 2006 [ 2 ]. These University of Arizona graduates mentored by my predecessor , Dr Doug Larson , could not have realized that almost 20 years later , their work would be the number 1 and 9th most downloaded JECT papers amongst all JECT articles archived at PubMed Central
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