Introducing Trainees to Academic Medicine Career Roles and Responsibilities.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The future of academic medicine depends on attracting motivated trainees to the academic career path, but challenges to recruitment include unfamiliarity with academic career options.

Methods

This workshop comprises a didactic session with small-group case discussion to enable trainees to learn how to: (1) define academic medical center roles and responsibilities, (2) assess the alignment of academic medical center roles with personal goals and interests, and (3) identify factors that support an academic medicine career trajectory. Workshop evaluations were collected at five academic medicine conferences for medical students and residents held across the U.S.

Results

Among the 139 conference participants who completed an evaluation form, the majority had

SUBMITTER: Fernandez CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6338157 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature