title: More than just a hobby: building an academic career in global emergency medicine.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  As the specialty of emergency medicine (EM) continues to spread around the world, a growing number of academic emergency physicians have become involved in global EM development, research, and teaching. While academic departments have always found this work laudable, they have only recently begun to accept global EM as a rigorous academic pursuit in its own right.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article describes how emergency physicians can translate their global health work into "academic currency" within both the clinician-educator and clinician-researcher tracks.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors discuss the impact of various types of additional training, including global EM fellowships, for launching a career in global EM. Clearly delineated clinician-researcher and clinician-educator tracks are important for documenting achievement in global EM.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Reflecting a growing interest in global health, more of today's EM faculty members are ascending the academic ranks as global EM specialists. Whether attempting to climb the academic ladder as a clinician-educator or clinician-researcher, advanced planning and the firm support of one's academic chair is crucial to the success of the promotion process. Given the relative youth of the subspecialty of global EM, however, it will take time for the pathways to academic promotion to become well delineated.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Ian B K
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Brown University Alpert School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island.
authors.forename: Adam C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Levine
authors.affiliation: Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kayden
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hauswald
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics; D002321:Career Choice; D002322:Career Mobility; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000592:standards; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D014943:Global Health / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States
keywords: academic; career; education; global emergency medicine; international emergency medicine; research