title: The medical educator in the 21st century: a personal perspective.
abstract: Academic faculty involved in medical education are set apart from educators in other fields by a different set of expectations and responsibilities. For a subgroup of such faculty, classified in this paper as clinician educators and educational leaders, their role as educators typically defines their primary academic contribution and mode of professional advancement. A variety of environmental factors, classified under the categories of changes in the healthcare system, changes in the educational environment, changes in the educational approach, and faculty pressures, present a series of challenges to these medical educators and to other teaching faculty at the beginning of the 21st century. Ten such factors are identified in this article, followed by a series of suggested approaches for addressing these environmental challenges.
authors.affiliation: American College ofPhysicians, 190 N. Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Weinberger
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000639:trends*; D004777:Environment; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States