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Originally Posted by ikestoys
academic clinical position? que? most academic positions are lab trolls, never to see the light of day.
Not for MD's, almost all the docs that treat patients in academic hospitals (any associated with a medschool) are holding clinical/instructor positions that require no lab research and only a minimal amount of clinical research.
Every academic institution is different but for an MD there are a couple typical tracks
1) Non-tenure track clinical - they are pretty much at like an MD at a normal hospital, but they also teach residents/medstudents.
2) Tenure track teaching/administrative - Same as above but they also hold administrative positions
3) Tenure track- Clinical research. They are treating patients a couple days a week, but their main role is getting grants for and conducting clinical research projects.
4) Tenure Track- Basic Science, you only minimally treat patients and the rest of your time is doing lab research. This is more common in some specialties, but almost non-existent in others.
All of these tracks are going to be making SIGNIFICANTLY less money than someone in private practice unless you work your way up to really high level administrative positions.
For example, I think renodoc is optho, where the median assistant professor (probably someone doing track 1/2 above, and they have already been promoted from associate) makes 200k, but in non-academic practice the median is 330k.