title: Make the context work for you: faculty in a changing academic medicine landscape.
abstract: Academic medicine's landscape is dynamically adjusting. The changes are accelerating and these alterations are impacting both the faculty workforce as a whole and individual faculty members. This article reviews workforce and institutional changes within academic medicine and supports the need for faculty members to adapt to this changing landscape. Resources to maintain an understanding of these ongoing changes are reviewed. A faculty life-cycle model is proposed as a context for developing a personal action plan. Career management steps are suggested to facilitate career productivity and satisfaction. Finally, we propose that psychologists, being human behavior experts, are well positioned to contribute within the transformation of academic medicine.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Office of Faculty Affairs, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39211, USA. posmith@umc.edu
authors.forename: Patrick O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Sarah A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bunton
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration; D002322:Career Mobility; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000639:trends*; D024382:Professional Role; D011584:Psychology / Q000193:education*; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce