The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2005;87:2131-2132.
doi:10.2106/JBJS.E.00423
© 2005 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.
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The Clinician Educator*

Michael A. Simon, MD1

1 Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedics, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 3079, Chicago, IL 60637.

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The mission of a traditional academic medical center with a medical school typically includes excellent patient care, education of future physicians, and the creation of new medical knowledge. In the last twenty-five years, as academic medical centers rapidly expanded their clinical services, they began to hire more full-time clinician educators to meet the demands for clinical services and the education of future physicians.

When I started my medical career, traditional academic medical centers hired a small cadre of physicians who were full-time faculty, who saw patients for two half-days per week and/or operated one or two days a week, who supervised inpatient patient care, and who provided education of medical students and residents. As the competition for research funding intensified in the last few decades, many of these faculty members devoted even more time to research and restricted their already limited activities in clinical care and education. Academic physicians engaged . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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