Comments on: Academic medicine: Money comes first http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/academic-medicine-money-comes-first.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/academic-medicine-money-comes-first.html#comment-73694 Anonymous Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/academic-medicine-money-comes-first.html#comment-73694 This must explain the financial diffulties in academe, as the old saw "if you can't do, teach" is hardly compatible with revenue generation on a clinical basis. This must explain the financial diffulties in academe, as the old saw “if you can’t do, teach” is hardly compatible with revenue generation on a clinical basis.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/academic-medicine-money-comes-first.html#comment-73689 Anonymous Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:45:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/academic-medicine-money-comes-first.html#comment-73689 The faculty's Clincal skill, and indeed clincal excellence, is assumed at most medical schools in the US.<br/><br/>Even in the face of evidence pointing otherwise.<br/><br/>Most medical schools view patient care as "something we have to do to pay the bills."<br/><br/>It is rare to see clinicians advance far in academia. This is slowly changing as research becomes so specialized that it requires essentially a full time committment.<br/><br/>Junior faculty who primary responsibility is patient care get used to being told how to be a good doctor by people who see patients 1 day a week and/or attend on rounds one month a year.<br/><br/>It's kind of like having senior citizens explain the internet to teen agers. The faculty’s Clincal skill, and indeed clincal excellence, is assumed at most medical schools in the US.

Even in the face of evidence pointing otherwise.

Most medical schools view patient care as “something we have to do to pay the bills.”

It is rare to see clinicians advance far in academia. This is slowly changing as research becomes so specialized that it requires essentially a full time committment.

Junior faculty who primary responsibility is patient care get used to being told how to be a good doctor by people who see patients 1 day a week and/or attend on rounds one month a year.

It’s kind of like having senior citizens explain the internet to teen agers.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/academic-medicine-money-comes-first.html#comment-73675 Anonymous Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:14:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/academic-medicine-money-comes-first.html#comment-73675 No one cares for patient care now in medical schools.Quality of teacher is not graded by his qualities as a doctor but only by the money he brings in. No one cares for patient care now in medical schools.Quality of teacher is not graded by his qualities as a doctor but only by the money he brings in.

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