Academic Careers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Academic careers in cardiovascular medicine.

With aging of the US population and continued success in prolonging survival of patients with cardiovascular disease, the prevalence of cardiovascular disease will increase exponentially in the next several decades.1 The anticipated supply of cardiovascular specialists will be insufficient to meet the demands of this increasing disease burden. A shortage already exists of cardiologists as a who...

Careers in academic medicine.

At this meeting at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), established academics and members of grant awarding bodies advised an audience, predominantly comprising trainees pursuing or contemplating a career in clinical science, on why, when and how to tackle such a career path in the current climate. There has arguably never been a more exciting time to be involved in clinical science. In this ...

Careers in academic medicine: the clinician scientist scheme.

when describing the current state of academic medicine in the UK. To take an optimistic view, the use of this term does imply recognition of a serious problem, and might stimulate attempts to solve it. A recent report from the Council of Heads of Medical Schools highlights some of the problems1. Over 10% of clinical academic posts remain unfilled despite a clear requirement for even greater num...

Developing academic careers in family medicine within the Mediterranean setting.

Training for academic cardiovascular medicine.

Academic units of cardiovascular medicine have traditionally provided a substantial part, if not all, of the clinical service for their teaching hospital. Hence, the clinical load carried by a lecturer or senior lecturer has often been equivalent to that carried by their National Health Service senior registrar and consultant colleagues, inevitably at the expense of research. Yet, the future of...