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Hi AHIGers,
Hospitalists with both clinical and academic responsibilities often struggle with the
competing demands of each role.
What are your most useful tips for being successful academically as a hospitalist? Here are some of mine:
1. Find a mentor outside of your clinical practice group, don't wait to be paired or for them to come to you. Ask... the worse they can say is no.
2. In order to get funded non-clinical time, you may have to prove your worth first. A little extra work up front, may pay dividends later. Knowing what department have funds helps (i.e. there is usually more money in medical student education than residency, quality improvement project can save the hospital money and be used to leverage funds, etc)
3. Hiring a friend who teaches writing to proofread my papers (not ghost writing) helped me overcome life-long writers block.
Other tips?
Jeannette
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Jeannette Guerrasio MD
Associate Professor
University of Colorado Denver
Denver CO
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