title: Career Development and Promotion in an Academic Health Center.
abstract: This paper examines the successive stages of the career path for psychologists who commit to spending their professional lives working in academic health centers. Key factors for success at each stage are described, as are the steps required for progressing to subsequent stages of professional development. The paper breaks new ground by including consideration of a post-retirement stage, "Professor Emeritus status."
authors.affiliation: Division of Developmental Medicine and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital - Kansas, 5520 College Blvd., Suite 425, Overland Park, KS, 66211, USA. echrist@cmh.edu.
authors.forename: Edward R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Christophersen
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D002322:Career Mobility; D006801:Humans; D011584:Psychology
keywords: Career development; Promotion