Recruiting and retaining clinician-educators

Clinician–Investigator Training and the Need to Pilot New Approaches to Recruiting and Retaining This Workforce

Clinician-investigators, also called physician-scientists, offer critical knowledge and perspectives that benefit research on basic science mechanisms, improved diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, population and outcomes medicine, health policy, and health services, yet few clinically trained health professionals pursue a research career. Sustaining this workforce requires attention to the u...

Recruiting Retaining Advancing

This paper focuses on implementing a multi-agent simulation using distributed Linux cluster for swarm intelligence between multiple agents in the context of a battlefield or hostile area scenario. Different aspects from several different papers can provide ways in which to develop an autonomous agent algorithm. An autonomous agent algorithm will have the group of individual worker agents collec...

Advice for clinician educators.

Not long ago, the idea of making education the focus of an academic career in neurology would have been heretical. Many of us were taught that to be an academic neurologist, anything less than a triple threat—a master clinician, teacher, and researcher—was unacceptable. For a variety of reasons, the triple threat is no longer maintained as a universal ideal, and academic neurologists whose focu...

Mentoring for clinician-educators.

Mentorship has been shown to have a positive impact on academic faculty members in terms of career advancement. The guidance of a mentor has been shown to increase academic outcome measures such as peer-reviewed publications and grant support for junior academic faculty. In addition, career satisfaction of mentored faculty is greater than those with no mentorship. There is little research on th...

Recruiting and Retaining a More Diverse Workforce