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Elevating Service in Academic Medicine—The S-Index

JAMA 10.1001/jama.2025.17221

October 01, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint proposes the development and adoption of a service index (s-index), a standardized, quantitative measure of service contribution in academic medicine.

Corresponding Author: Rebekah Mannix, MD, MPH, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (Rebekah.Mannix@childrens.harvard.edu).

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