Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Early career academic cardiologists currently face unprecedented challenges that threaten a highly valued career path. A team consisting of early career professionals and senior leadership members of American College of Cardiology completed this white paper to inform the cardiovascular medicine profession regarding the plight of early career cardiologists and to suggest possible solutions. This paper includes: 1) definition of categories of early career academic cardiologists; 2) general challenges to all categories and specific challenges to each category; 3) obstacles as identified by a survey of current early career members of the American College of Cardiology; 4) major reasons for the failure of physician-scientists to receive funding from National Institute of Health/National Heart Lung and Blood Institute career development grants; 5) potential solutions; and 6) a call to action with specific recommendations.
Authors: Carl W. Tong, Tariq Ahmad, Evan L. Brittain, T. Jared Bunch, Julie B. Damp, Todd Dardas, Amalea Hijar, Joseph A. Hill, Anthony A. Hilliard, Steven R. Houser, Eiman Jahangir, Andrew M. Kates, Darlene Kim, Brian R. Lindman, John J. Ryan, Anne K. Rzeszut, Chittur A. Sivaram, Anne Marie Valente, Andrew M. Freeman
Institutions: Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple, Baylor Scott & White Health, Texas A&M University, Duke University, Duke Medical Center, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Primary Children's Hospital, Intermountain Medical Center, University of Washington, University of Washington Medical Center, American College of Cardiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Temple University, The University of Queensland, Ochsner Medical Center, Washington University in St. Louis, National Jewish Health, University of Colorado Denver, University of Utah, University of Utah Health Care, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $7,166
OpenAlex ID: W2033491664