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Becoming a successful faculty member in an academic medical center is not a trivial undertaking. Success requires strong effort in three major areas including patient care, teaching, and research. A commonality amongst the great achievers in academia, and other professions, is excellent time management skills. While no one is born knowing how to prepare and deliver effective scientific presentations; write a successful research grant; build a world-class research program; manage research assistants; and balance the endless and often conflicting time demands imposed by clinical practice, teaching, research, and administrative service – a time management plan will greatly facilitate achievement in these areas.
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Pugh, C.M., Nathwani, J.N. (2017). Time Management. In: Chen, H., Kao, L. (eds) Success in Academic Surgery. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43952-5_15
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