Careers in academic medicine

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 ...

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: 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.

Reputation and Impact in Academic Careers

Reputation is an important social construct in science, which enables informed quality assessments of both publications and careers of scientists in the absence of complete systemic information. However, the relation between reputation and career growth of an individual remains poorly understood, despite recent proliferation of quantitative research evaluation methods. Here, we develop an origi...