Table of Contents:
  • Deciding on an academic career.
  • About an academic career.
  • What you need to know about the academic medical center.
  • Finding the academic job you want.
  • Basic academic skills: clinical practice, teaching, and scholarship.
  • Advanced academic skills: doing research, getting grants, and writing for publication.
  • Administrative skills.
  • Academic medicine success skills.
  • How to manage your career and your life.
  • Planning for the future.
  • Appendix 1: Glossary.
  • Appendix 2: Collected academic medical aphorisms.
  • Appendix 3: Allopathic medical schools in the United States.
  • Appendix 4: Osteopathic medical schools in the United States.
  • Appendix 5: Medical schools in Canada.