3.5: The Teacher

Today we're gonna talk about being a clinical teacher and what that pathway particularly looks like.

3.5: The Teacher
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Traditional Pathways in Academic Settings


Basic Science Faculty

These are faculty members who spend the majority of their time in extramural funded research and also have a significant teaching responsibility.

Research Faculty

These are faculty members who spend nearly their entire time involved in research and who have minimal teaching responsibility.

Clinician Scientist

These are faculty members with clinical responsibilities who spend significant time in basic or clinical research and who have teaching responsibilities.

Clinician Educator

These are faculty members who spend the majority of their time in clinical teaching and practice-related activities.

Clinician

These are faculty members who spend their time exclusively in clinical practice or practice-related activities and have limited interaction with students, residents and fellows in an educational context.

Faculty Educator

These are faculty members who spend nearly their entire time involved in the educational activities related to medical student, PA student, and other health professions student curricular activities.

Quality/Patient Safety

These are faculty members with clinical responsibilities who spend significant time in quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.
 
 

Teaching in Non-Academic Settings


 

Pros

  • You can teach in all settings
  • More flexibility
  • Possibly bigger audience
  • More recognition
  • Supplement FTEs
 

Cons

  • Lack of Infrastructure
  • Labor of Love
 

Is Mentorship still Valued?


  • Mentor-mentee relationships are challenged by
    • increased clinical, research, and administrative demands.
  • Moreover, mentorship is often undervalued by academic institutions
 
Junaid Kalia MD

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Junaid Kalia MD

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