Ian B K Martin1, Adam C Levine2, Stephanie Kayden3, Mark Hauswald4. 1. Departments of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Brown University Alpert School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island. 3. Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 4. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: As the specialty of emergency medicine (EM) continues to spread around the world, a growing number of academic emergency physicians have become involved in global EM development, research, and teaching. While academic departments have always found this work laudable, they have only recently begun to accept global EM as a rigorous academic pursuit in its own right. OBJECTIVE: This article describes how emergency physicians can translate their global health work into "academic currency" within both the clinician-educator and clinician-researcher tracks. DISCUSSION: The authors discuss the impact of various types of additional training, including global EM fellowships, for launching a career in global EM. Clearly delineated clinician-researcher and clinician-educator tracks are important for documenting achievement in global EM. CONCLUSIONS: Reflecting a growing interest in global health, more of today's EM faculty members are ascending the academic ranks as global EM specialists. Whether attempting to climb the academic ladder as a clinician-educator or clinician-researcher, advanced planning and the firm support of one's academic chair is crucial to the success of the promotion process. Given the relative youth of the subspecialty of global EM, however, it will take time for the pathways to academic promotion to become well delineated.
BACKGROUND: As the specialty of emergency medicine (EM) continues to spread around the world, a growing number of academic emergency physicians have become involved in global EM development, research, and teaching. While academic departments have always found this work laudable, they have only recently begun to accept global EM as a rigorous academic pursuit in its own right. OBJECTIVE: This article describes how emergency physicians can translate their global health work into "academic currency" within both the clinician-educator and clinician-researcher tracks. DISCUSSION: The authors discuss the impact of various types of additional training, including global EM fellowships, for launching a career in global EM. Clearly delineated clinician-researcher and clinician-educator tracks are important for documenting achievement in global EM. CONCLUSIONS: Reflecting a growing interest in global health, more of today's EM faculty members are ascending the academic ranks as global EM specialists. Whether attempting to climb the academic ladder as a clinician-educator or clinician-researcher, advanced planning and the firm support of one's academic chair is crucial to the success of the promotion process. Given the relative youth of the subspecialty of global EM, however, it will take time for the pathways to academic promotion to become well delineated.
Authors: Gregory L Peck; Manish Garg; Bonnie Arquilla; Vicente H Gracias; Harry L Anderson Iii; Andrew C Miller; Bhakti Hansoti; Paula Ferrada; Michael S Firstenberg; Sagar C Galwankar; Ramon E Gist; Donald Jeanmonod; Rebecca Jeanmonod; Elizabeth Krebs; Marian P McDonald; Benedict Nwomeh; James P Orlando; Lorenzo Paladino; Thomas J Papadimos; Robert L Ricca; Joseph V Sakran; Richard P Sharpe; Mamta Swaroop; Stanislaw P Stawicki Journal: Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci Date: 2017 Oct-Dec