How Can Clinician-Scholar-Educators Best Be Supported?

Conclusions

To ensure programs are infused with the best faculty educators, support at the institutional and national level is needed. This includes such support as CSE promotion tracks, career development grants and research time. Acad­emies may fill one void by creating an organizational structure at the home institution that promotes professional identity, legitimizes the goals of the CSE and supports those interested in education research.

Programs at the national level, such as the Foundation CSE award, set our professional society apart as granting monetary support and research time to individuals desiring a career as an educator. Such career development awards bring recognition to the individual’s work as being worthy of support and help to ensure ongoing professional success. On a broader level, career development awards serve to bring together a community of educators, allowing for continued professional growth, mentorship, sponsorship and collaboration, advancing the educational mission of such national professional societies as the ACR.

Jessica R. Berman, MD, is associate professor of medicine (education), director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program and associate director of the HSS Academy, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City.

Juliet Aizer, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor of clinical medicine, associate director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program, unit leader of patient care and physicianship, and Nanette Laitman Education Scholar in Entrepreneurship at the Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medicine.

Stephen A. Paget, MD, is physician-in-chief emeritus of the Hospital for Special Surgery, founder and director of the Academy of Medical Educators and professor of medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medicine.

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