Becker's Healthcare May 31, 2024
A physician’s academic footprint is a way of measuring their impact on the medical field and is an essential part of the profession; however, not many physicians participate as they could, Arthur Lazarus, MD, a member of the editorial board of the American Association for Physician Leadership and an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, said in an opinion piece published May 30 on MedPage Today.
A 2021 study found that 51% of academic hospital medicine faculty had no published papers and of physicians at academic hospitals, 2.7% were full professors and 9% were associate professors.
Academic footprints enrich the medical field and allow physicians greater influence in...
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