title: Reflections of a mid-career clinician educator--fanning the flames for teaching.
abstract: Family medicine educators today face vast challenges. Clinical demands and the lack of specific revenue streams for our educational mission are among the many threats to the commitment of our faculty to keep education in its rightful place of honor and value within our academic institutions. To preserve our historic and critical mission, it is imperative that we find ways to rekindle the passion that called many of us to a teaching career path.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. clark_denniston@med.unc.edu
authors.forename: Clark
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Denniston
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008611:Mentors; D013663:Teaching