Carol R. Thrush
Professor
Also affiliated: United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2006); University of Washington (2004); University of Utah (2004); University of Arkansas Medical Center (2008–2020); Health Services Research & Development (2002–2003); VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System (2004); VA Puget Sound Health Care System (2004); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2002–2005); Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (2003); University of Applied Management Studies (2003)
Surgery, College of Medicine
Research Areas
Biomedical Subjects
Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Carol R. Thrush, Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, investigates factors influencing physician burnout and organizational climate within academic medicine. Her work includes developing and validating surveys such as the Climate of Accountability, Respect, and Ethics Survey (CARES) and the Climate of Accountability and Interpersonal Respect (CAIR) survey, aiming to assess and improve professional environments. Thrush also conducts research on resident physician training and career pathways, including studies on factors associated with entering practice directly after residency and the effectiveness of transitional year residency programs for unmatched medical students.
Her research extends to medical education, with publications examining innovative curricula such as a longitudinal suture curriculum for medical students and an Anatomy Scholars Program. Thrush leads a research group and has a scholarly output reflected in her h-index of 25 and over 1,841 citations across 94 publications. She has collaborated with researchers at her institution, including Mary K. Kimbrough and Molly M. Gathright, on multiple publications.
Metrics
- h-index: 25
- Publications: 93
- Citations: 1,853
Positions
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Professor publications 1999–2025University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Surgery, College of Medicine Institutional directory
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences publications 1999–2025ORCID
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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 1991–1995ORCID
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University of West Florida 1989–1991ORCID
Selected Publications
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Toward an “ecosystems” approach to responsible conduct of research (RCR): A multi-stakeholder framework for collaborative accountability and policy recommendations on research integrity (2025)
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Creating a Roadmap for Longitudinal Quality Improvement Training in a Pediatric Residency Program (2025)
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Beyond Boot Camp: Small Group Learning to Enhance Hospital Medicine Knowledge and Clinical Reasoning for Community-Based Residency Programs (2025)
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Climate of Accountability, Respect, and Ethics Survey (CARES): development and validation of an organizational climate survey (2025)
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A multi-institutional study from the US ROPE Consortium examining factors associated with directly entering practice upon residency graduation (2022)
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A Transitional Year Residency Program Provides Innovative Solutions for Unmatched Medical Students (2021)
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Anatomy Scholars Program for Medical Students Entering a Surgical Residency (2021)
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Loss of Meaning at Work Associated with Burnout Risk in Academic Medicine (2021)
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Hemorrhage-Control Training in Medical Education (2020)
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Psychometric Properties of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory in an Academic Healthcare Institution Sample in the U.S. (2020)
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Mobile Spaced Education in Surgical Education Settings and Specialties: A Scoping Review (2020)
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Using Injury Severity Score and Abbreviated Injury Score to Determine Venous Thromboembolism Risk (2019)
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What makes them different? An exploration of mentoring for female faculty, residents, and medical students pursuing a career in surgery (2019)
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Lessons Learned From the Creation of a Business of Medicine Course (2019)
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A One-Year Institutional View of Resident Physician Burnout (2019)
Research Interests
Dr. Thrush has worked in academic healthcare settings since 1991, and has published more than 80 scientific journal articles spanning educational, social and behavioral sciences, health services, and medical education research domains. She has served as a Co-PI on an NIH NCRR grant to establish psychometric properties of a survey to assess organizational research climate and as a consultant on a VA HSR&D-funded grant to assess methods of feedback from this survey to VA leaders. She has consulted with many entities regarding measuring the organizational climate for research integrity, including the Council of Graduate Schools, Michigan State University, Epigeum, the American Geophysical Union, University of California Davis-NCATS investigators, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Grants & Funding
As listed on this researcher's institutional profile.
- League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Medical Spanish Course Pulaski County Medical Society Faculty
- The AGU Ethics and Equity Initiative: Catalyzing Cultural Change in the Sciences with New Resources and Tracking Tools. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Other
- An RCT to Test Reporting and Feedback to Foster Research Integrity Climates VA Health Services Research and Development Service, Directed Research Projects on Research Best Practices to improve Human Subjects Protection in Research and Improve Research Integrity Other Significant Contributor
- UAMS LULAC Medical Spanish Course - Continuation Pulaski County Medical Society Principal Investigator
- Propagating the Uniform Research Integrity Climate Assessment (U-RICA) NIH Other Significant Contributor
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
- Psychometric Properties of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory in an Academic Healthcare Institution Sample in the U.S.
- Differences in burnout prevalence between clinical professionals and biomedical scientists in an academic medical centre: a cross-sectional survey
- A One-Year Institutional View of Resident Physician Burnout
- Loss of Meaning at Work Associated with Burnout Risk in Academic Medicine
- What Do Medical Students Perceive as Meaningful in the Psychiatry Clerkship Learning Environment? A Content Analysis of Critical Incident Narratives
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
- What makes them different? An exploration of mentoring for female faculty, residents, and medical students pursuing a career in surgery
- Relationships between study habits, burnout, and general surgery resident performance on the American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination
- Are Surgical Milestone Assessments Predictive of In-Training Examination Scores?
- Hemorrhage-Control Training in Medical Education
- National Landscape of General Surgery Mock Oral Examination Practices: Survey of Residency Program Directors
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
- Differences in burnout prevalence between clinical professionals and biomedical scientists in an academic medical centre: a cross-sectional survey
- A One-Year Institutional View of Resident Physician Burnout
- Developing the Careers of Clinician-Educators in Psychiatry
- Using an explicit guideline-based criterion and implicit review to assess antipsychotic dosing performance for schizophrenia
- What Do Medical Students Perceive as Meaningful in the Psychiatry Clerkship Learning Environment? A Content Analysis of Critical Incident Narratives
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
- Relationships Between the Survey of Organizational Research Climate (SORC) and Self-Reported Research Practices
- Development and Validation of the Survey of Organizational Research Climate (SORC)
- Survey of Organizational Research Climates in Three Research Intensive, Doctoral Granting Universities
- Initial Results from the Survey of Organizational Research Climates (SOuRCe) in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
- Proceedings of the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
- Implementing Research Findings into Practice Using Clinical Opinion Leaders: Barriers and Lessons Learned
- Use of Electronic Medical Record Data for Quality Improvement in Schizophrenia Treatment
- Economic evaluations of novel antipsychotic medications: a literature review
- Depressive Disorders and Alcohol Dependence in a Community Population
- Using an explicit guideline-based criterion and implicit review to assess antipsychotic dosing performance for schizophrenia
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Relationships between study habits, burnout, and general surgery resident performance on the American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination
- Mobile spaced education for surgery rotation improves National Board of Medical Examiners scores
- Effects of Mentorship on Graduating Vascular Surgery Trainees
- National Landscape of General Surgery Mock Oral Examination Practices: Survey of Residency Program Directors
- Nicotine Dependence and Willingness to Quit Smoking in Vascular Surgery Patients
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Relationships between study habits, burnout, and general surgery resident performance on the American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination
- Are Surgical Milestone Assessments Predictive of In-Training Examination Scores?
- Mobile spaced education for surgery rotation improves National Board of Medical Examiners scores
- National Landscape of General Surgery Mock Oral Examination Practices: Survey of Residency Program Directors
- Surgical Career Choices in Medical Students: Timing, Stability and Important Factors
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- Psychometric Properties of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory in an Academic Healthcare Institution Sample in the U.S.
- Differences in burnout prevalence between clinical professionals and biomedical scientists in an academic medical centre: a cross-sectional survey
- Loss of Meaning at Work Associated with Burnout Risk in Academic Medicine
- Perspectives of meaningful work in a high-burnout academic medical center: a discourse analysis
- Relationship Between Self-Report and Clinician-Rated Impairment in Depressed Outpatients
- The Interface between Mental Health Providers, Families, and Schools: Parent and Child Attitudes about Information-Sharing
- Evaluation and Treatment of Depression (Part I)
- Psychometric Properties of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory in an Academic Healthcare Institution Sample in the U.S.
- A One-Year Institutional View of Resident Physician Burnout
- What Do Medical Students Perceive as Meaningful in the Psychiatry Clerkship Learning Environment? A Content Analysis of Critical Incident Narratives
- Content Validation of the Organizational Climate for Research Integrity (OCRI) Survey.
- Content Validation of the Organizational Climate for Research Integrity (OCRI) Survey
- Identifying Areas for Curricular Program Improvement Based on Perceptions of Skills, Competencies, and Performance
- Use of Electronic Medical Record Data for Quality Improvement in Schizophrenia Treatment
- Economic evaluations of novel antipsychotic medications: a literature review
- Using an explicit guideline-based criterion and implicit review to assess antipsychotic dosing performance for schizophrenia
- A randomized controlled trial of behavior change counseling education for medical students
- A Graduate Medical Education Initiative to Promote Professional Excellence Among Residency Program Coordinators
- Effectiveness of Critical Care Education on Resident Physicians’ Knowledge and Self-Efficacy Gains.
- A One-Year Institutional View of Resident Physician Burnout
- Using an explicit guideline-based criterion and implicit review to assess antipsychotic dosing performance for schizophrenia
- Benefits and Early Outcomes of a New Mock Oral Examination for Colorectal Surgery
- A randomized controlled trial of behavior change counseling education for medical students
- Evidence for validity of a survey to measure the learning environment for professionalism
- Crystal clear or tin ear: how do medical students interpret derogatory comments about patients and other professionals?
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