'What color is my parachute': career opportunities in academic gastroenterology and hepatology.

摘要

The core function of an academic medical center is related to patient care. This patient-centric view guides everything that we as academicians subsequently do as part of our unique mission: Education, research, or financial decisions, and consequently is a fitting place to begin this commentary. "Common things are common" and academic medical centers are no different. This is often captured in the case mix index (CMI), a measure of the complexity of the medical problems that are cared for in a given clinical setting, be it academic medical center or community hospital, and captures the broad clinical challenge that most regional medical centers and their affiliated hospitals must confront.