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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
- Sambunjak D, Straus SE, Marušić A. Mentoring in Academic Medicine. JAMA [Internet]. 2006 Sep 6 [cited 2022 Jan 24];296(9):1103. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16954490/