How to Find Your Path in Academic Medicine

Abstract

Academic medicine exists to create a better future for all of humanity. Medical school faculty fulfill this awesome responsibility through present-day effort in five interdependent realms: advancing science, engaging in clinical innovation and ­service, fostering multidisciplinary education, collaborating to address societal needs, and nurturing leadership and professionalism. Faculty investigators seek new knowledge to help understand the biological basis of health and disease as well as the psychological, cultural, and social determinants of illness. Academic clinicians apply scientific evidence to help individual patients, to establish better practices, and to create effective systems of care for entire populations.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller