Moving forward from the mid-career: Path options and strategies for mid-career academics

New challenges and paradigms for mid-career faculty in academic medical centers: key strategies for success for mid-career medical school faculty.

S uccess, like beauty, is difficult to define, but one knows it when one sees it. A reasonable definition is the achievement of satisfaction and happiness in one’s profession, which then defers the definition to that of happiness and satisfaction. These will be dependent on the extent and directions of one’s passion, the pursuit of which promotes satisfying productivity. Physicians who choose t...

The Paradox of Transformative Learning Among Mid-Career Professionals

Royal Roads University (RRU) is a special purpose university in British Columbia, Canada. Since 1995, this university has focused primarily on multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary graduate education for working professionals. Most programs are offered in a blended online and face-to-face format, which enables adult learners to continue in their professions while they pursue their studies. While...

Mid-career burnout in generalist and specialist physicians.

The tipping point from private practice to publicly funded settings for early- and mid-career psychiatrists.

OBJECTIVE Practice settings for American psychiatrists were examined for recent trends. METHODS Surveys were conducted in 1996 (N=970) and 2002 (N=917) among members of the American Psychiatric Association. RESULTS Between 1996 and 2002 the percentage of direct patient care hours in publicly funded settings increased from 40 to 50 percent for early-career psychiatrists and from 29 to 44 per...

Past, Present and Future: The Outlook from Mid-Career Nurse Informaticians.

Nursing informatics (NI), as a specialty of nursing, can trace its origins back as far as the 1960s. While difficult to find empirical evidence to pinpoint exactly when NI moved from the fringes of nursing to more mainstream recognition, the late 1990s to early 2000s was a period of significant growth in the desire to leverage information technology as a means of collecting more robust and reli...