But even as my career progressed, I observed that many of my female colleagues were disproportionately dropping
out of academic medicine careers.
(An article in the June 2009
issue of Academic Medicine lists each state's medical board's stance on questioning applicants about mental health issues.)
It became increasingly important to me to foster these ideas, so it was frustrating to learn that my dream of combining work in clinical medicine and bioethics was not supported by the German
system of academic medicine — in contrast to the Anglo - American system and that in other advanced countries.
Institutionalized gender bias is likely the main reason women are underrepresented in the upper
echelons of academic medicine, they write, and explanations involving women's choice can distract observers from unfair institutional practices.
The problem, as he saw it, was that the explosion of scientific knowledge had coincided with the
implosion of academic medicine under the ecocomic pressures of a costly health - care system.
Data on graduates of MSTPs indicate that these programs are successful in producing productive researchers, who obtain NIH grants and are promoted through the
ranks of academic medicine.
In addition, there are growing expectations that the research
arm of academic medicine must, like the clinical arm, be a revenue source — thus the new alliances with industry, especially in the area of technology transfer.
He is Trustee Emeritus of The Rockefeller University, Life Trustee of New York University, Trustee of The Manhattan Institute, and
Chairman of the Academic Medicine Development Company (AMDeC) and is an Honorary Trustee of The Museum of Modern Art and was a Trustee of the American Museum of Natural History.
Pfund, House, Asquith, Fleming, Buhr, Burnham, Eichenberger Gilmore, Huskins, McGee, Schurr, Shapiro, Spencer, Sorkness, Training Mentors of Clinical and Translational Research Scholars: A Randomized Controlled Trial,
Journal of Academic Medicine, May 2014
UC San Diego Health System is expanding its services in North County, South Bay and East County to bring the
best of academic medicine to communities throughout the greater San Diego region.
These findings were published in the latest
issue of Academic Medicine, a journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The data come from a paper appearing in the June issue
of Academic Medicine that also explores application success rates for men and women.