@article{90bf11b3dc4d420b82b975e6737b9913,
title = "Challenges facing early career academic cardiologists",
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.",
keywords = "academic medical center, clinician-educator, early career academic cardiologist, physician-scientist",
author = "Tong, {Carl W.} and Tariq Ahmad and Brittain, {Evan L.} and Bunch, {T. Jared} and Damp, {Julie B.} and Todd Dardas and Amalea Hijar and Hill, {Joseph A.} and Hilliard, {Anthony A.} and Houser, {Steven R.} and Eiman Jahangir and Kates, {Andrew M.} and Darlene Kim and Lindman, {Brian R.} and Ryan, {John J.} and Rzeszut, {Anne K.} and Sivaram, {Chittur A.} and Valente, {Anne Marie} and Freeman, {Andrew M.}",
note = "Funding Information: This effort was supported in part by the American College of Cardiology , grants from the National Institutes of Health ( #NIH/K23HL11660 to Dr. Lindman, and #NIH/K08HL114877 to Dr. Tong), and an American Heart Association grant #13FTF16070002 to Dr. Brittain. Dr. Bunch serves on the advisory board of Boston Scientific; and receives consulting fees from St. Jude Medical and Biosense Webster. Dr. Dardas received the ACC/Daiichi Sankyo Career Development Award; and is a research site co-investigator for ENDURANCE CAP (Heartware Destination Therapy Trial). Dr. Lindman received consulting fees from Gerson Lehrman Group Research; and assay support for research from BG-Medicine and Roche. Dr. Sivaram is a member of the Data Safety Monitoring Board for Medtronic. Dr. Freeman receives consulting fees from Gilead; and speaking fees from Medtronic. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose. Funding Information: Despite decreases in total funding amount and award success percentage ( Fig. 6 ), NIH/NHLBI career development K08 (basic research) and K23 (clinical research) grants remain relatively obtainable. In 2012, the funding success rates were 32.1% and 20.9% for K08 and K23, respectively (4) . Between 2007 and 2010, 49% of K08 grants were awarded to adult cardiology (5) . Thus, NIH/NHLBI career development grants remain viable sources of grant support for early career academic cardiologists. However, all K-grants are grouped together and awarded by their priority score without regard to subcategories (i.e., K01, K02, K08, K12, K23, K24, K25, K99/R00); consequently, early career academic cardiologists compete with more established applicants (e.g., mid-career K02). In this light, we have worked with NHLBI program officers and a past chairman of K-grants review study section to compile a list of major reasons for the failure of physician-scientists to receive funding ( Table 3 ). ",
year = "2014",
month = jun,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1016/j.jacc.2014.03.011",
language = "English",
volume = "63",
pages = "2199--2208",
journal = "Journal of the American College of Cardiology",
issn = "0735-1097",
number = "21",
}