title: Surviving the shifting focus from basic research to clinical activities in reproductive endocrinology and infertility.
abstract: Important members of our clinical and scientific community are defecting to the private sector as frustration with academic medical centers grows intolerable. Departments need to rethink traditional paradigms for assigning research, teaching, and clinical care duties to allow faculty the time to do these activities with the care and attention they deserve.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. mvs9@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Mark V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Sauer
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D002322:Career Mobility; D004704:Endocrinology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000628:therapy; D018456:Reproductive Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D014495:Universities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends