title: Commentary: charting a course for success: excellence in clinical care and discovery in academic departments.
abstract: The current shifts in academics not only invite new challenges but create previously unexplored opportunities for unique discoveries in health. Leaders in academic departments must consider changes in academic medicine as new courses to be charted rather than an inevitable shifting of the ground beneath them. Under this model, clinical excellence is coupled with discovery, where trainees, faculty, and patients and families are continually exposed to asking questions and identifying ways to move science forward to improve health. Academic pediatrics remains today a vibrant and exciting discipline with extraordinary leaders and committed trainees. We must continue to inspire on the voyage to excellence, keeping our eyes on the horizon and not the gathering storms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-4313, USA. william.cooper@vanderbilt.edu
authors.forename: William O
authors.initials: WO
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Jonathan D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Gitlin
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D058996:Quality Improvement; D014481:United States