Second author to an attending

[skol926]

Ms2 shooting for ortho. I got a paper into a top ortho journal and was expecting to be first author as I wrote the whole thing and did all phone follow up and stats/data analysis. However my established attending took first author, he's very well known in the field. How will this be viewed? I'm guessing most people will know he didn't sit down and write a whole paper or do any stats so I'm wondering if it'll look almost like a first author?

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[OrthoTraumaMD]

It is what it is. First and last authors matter most, followed by second.


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[ceilingfan019]

This thread is old, but for anyone else seeing this in the future, think about what first author means. This is the person that a reader will want to get answers from if they have questions about the topic. Imagine this: you are the first author on a paper describing patient outcomes through a novel surgical technique. Are you willing/able to defend this finding in front of an audience of other surgeons? I would wager that most medical students would not be comfortable in that situation.

First author is not what is it made out to be by medical students. Personally, I don't really care as long as I'm not buried in the authorship despite the contributions I made. Also, other surgeons know that if the big name person is first author, the people following just after him/her did the majority of the research work (phone calls, stats, chart review, etc).

 

[House_DO_]

You can be the Hansen to his Lauge. It's all good.

 

[OrthoTraumaMD]

You can be the Hansen to his Lauge. It's all good.

Actually you can’t.
Lauge-Hansen was one person.

Fractures of the ankle. III. Genetic roentgenologic diagnosis of fractures of the ankle. - PubMed - NCBI


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[Lawpy]

Actually you can’t.
Lauge-Hansen was one person.

Fractures of the ankle. III. Genetic roentgenologic diagnosis of fractures of the ankle. - PubMed - NCBI


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The misleading hyphen!

 

[OrthoTraumaMD]

The misleading hyphen!

So nice, they named him twice.


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[VincentAdultman]

I’m first author on one and second in another.

They both show up on my CV and when you put my name into a pubmed search.

 

[truthseeker]

I just searched Vincent adultman and found NOTHING

 

[VincentAdultman]

I just searched Vincent adultman and found NOTHING

That’s weird.