TY - JOUR
T1 - Status of Early-Career Academic Cardiology
T2 - A Global Perspective
AU - Tong, Carl W.
AU - Madhur, Meena S.
AU - Rzeszut, Anne K.
AU - Abdalla, Marwah
AU - Abudayyeh, Islam
AU - Alexanderson, Erick
AU - Buber, Jonathan
AU - Feldman, Dmitriy N.
AU - Gopinathannair, Rakesh
AU - Hira, Ravi S.
AU - Kates, Andrew M.
AU - Kessler, Thorsten
AU - Leung, Steve
AU - Raj, Satish R.
AU - Spatz, Erica S.
AU - Turner, Melanie B.
AU - Valente, Anne Marie
AU - West, Kristin
AU - Sivaram, Chittur A.
AU - Hill, Joseph A.
AU - Mann, Douglas L.
AU - Freeman, Andrew M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American College of Cardiology Foundation
PY - 2017/10/31
Y1 - 2017/10/31
N2 - Early-career academic cardiologists, who many believe are an important component of the future of cardiovascular care, face myriad challenges. The Early Career Section Academic Working Group of the American College of Cardiology, with senior leadership support, assessed the progress of this cohort from 2013 to 2016 with a global perspective. Data consisted of accessing National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute public information, data from the American Heart Association and international organizations, and a membership-wide survey. Although the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute increased funding of career development grants, only a small number of early-career American College of Cardiology members have benefited as funding of the entire cohort has decreased. Personal motivation, institutional support, and collaborators continued to be positive influential factors. Surprisingly, mentoring ceased to correlate positively with obtaining external grants. The totality of findings suggests that the status of early-career academic cardiologists remains challenging; therefore, the authors recommend a set of attainable solutions.
AB - Early-career academic cardiologists, who many believe are an important component of the future of cardiovascular care, face myriad challenges. The Early Career Section Academic Working Group of the American College of Cardiology, with senior leadership support, assessed the progress of this cohort from 2013 to 2016 with a global perspective. Data consisted of accessing National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute public information, data from the American Heart Association and international organizations, and a membership-wide survey. Although the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute increased funding of career development grants, only a small number of early-career American College of Cardiology members have benefited as funding of the entire cohort has decreased. Personal motivation, institutional support, and collaborators continued to be positive influential factors. Surprisingly, mentoring ceased to correlate positively with obtaining external grants. The totality of findings suggests that the status of early-career academic cardiologists remains challenging; therefore, the authors recommend a set of attainable solutions.
KW - cardiology profession
KW - clinician-scientist
KW - early-career academic cardiologist
KW - mentoring
KW - physician-scientist
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85032711769&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.09.030
DO - 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.09.030
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29073958
AN - SCOPUS:85032711769
SN - 0735-1097
VL - 70
SP - 2290
EP - 2303
JO - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
JF - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
IS - 18
ER -