@article{ee67c788c7e945b7ac8e48d0d51d1617,
title = "The National Institutes of Health funding for cardiothoracic surgical research",
author = "Kron, \{Irving L.\}",
note = "Funding Information: The AATS has plans to focus on the development of academic surgeons. These will need to be amplified. Appropriate mentorship for clinical investigators is the most difficult issue facing surgical division and department chairs. The balance between clinical work and scientific investigation is very difficult to achieve. As a matter of fact, this was the major issue discussed at the new members' luncheon at the recent AATS meeting. There is a tremendous emphasis for young faculty members to develop clinical surgical careers. To develop a clinical reputation, one must operate and achieve good results. This is in stark contrast to the needs of the basic science investigator. Indeed, those individuals in basic science departments are full-time investigators and have time to develop their research careers. Therefore, how will this balance be met? For our specialty to develop clinical investigators, we must provide the resources to protect them at least at the beginning of their academic careers while they are developing scientific cooperations. They must learn how to run a laboratory as well as get grant funding. Just protecting time is not enough. Senior leadership of departments and divisions must guarantee that these individuals use the time to develop their scientific careers. To help them to develop their clinical careers at the same time, we must provide them with cases and support so that the balance can be met. For some institutions this is easier than for others. Not all institutions are able to provide young investigators appropriate scientific and clinical mentoring. Therefore, our national organizations will somehow have to develop a method for mentoring to occur on a national level. ",
year = "2008",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.06.003",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "136",
pages = "398--399",
journal = "Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery",
issn = "0022-5223",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "2",
}