Salary of Clinical Professor?

[geretts]

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I'm wondering if anybody can tell me how much assistant, associate, and full professors of clinical medicine make. I'm assuming you make less than practicing docs, but I'm wondering how much of a salary cut you take?

I am specifically interested in teaching FM. Would you say 130k to start as an assistant clinical professor? About 75% of a starting FM attending?

 

[mimelim]

I'm not sure what a "professor of clinical medicine" is, at least how you are using the term... The people who teach family medicine in medical school are family medicine attendings both academic and private...

 

[geretts]

I'm not sure what a "professor of clinical medicine" is, at least how you are using the term... The people who teach family medicine in medical school are family medicine attendings both academic and private...

Thanks for the information. I guess "Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine" is the exact title for a profile under the "Faculty and Staff" at a med school at which I'd be interested in teaching. I would like to eventually teach medical students at a medical school, and I am wondering how much of a salary cut you have to take to do that.

 

[Osteoth]

Not sure about your state but in California all salary information for professors working at public institutions is readily available on the internet, as long as you know first name, last name, and location they teach at.

 

[allantois]

Thanks for the information. I guess "Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine" is the exact title for a profile under the "Faculty and Staff" at a med school at which I'd be interested in teaching. I would like to eventually teach medical students at a medical school, and I am wondering how much of a salary cut you have to take to do that.

You don't have to be a family practitioner to teach at a medical school. Medical school professors (physicians) come from all kinds of specialties and they can all teach medical students the basic clinical science (first 2 years) as they all once were in a medical school. You can look up salaries of all public employees on the internet. Most salaries are in the 150-200k range, which is a lot more than for PhDs teaching at other colleges of a university.

So, 130k to start seems reasonable.

Also, I noticed that med school faculty who were trained as family doctors get about the same salary as somebody who is a high end specialist in their field also teaching at the same school.

 

[NickNaylor]

Salaries can also vary quite a bit based on the specialty and your specific role in the institution. As an example, it is fairly well known that one of the heads of a surgery section at my institution clears more than a million each year. Obviously that's not typical for most faculty - even other department/section heads.

 

[LizzyM]

Teaching in medical school is different than teaching in college. MD faculty very seldom teach a lecture course covering 30-45 hours per term as one might have in college.

Most Assistant Professors of Family Medicine will generate income for the medical school by caring for patients and supervising residents and medical students involved in patient care. Some will do research funded by research grants that cover a portion of their salary; in family medicine this may be studies of how to better assure that patients get primary care and preventive services or how to provide more efficient diagnostic evaluations of common complaints. Some faculty members will be called on to give a few lectures per year on their area of expertise or to teach physical exam skills to a small group of students, or to be the group moderator of a small group in problem based learning or other small group learning. A few faculty in the department have administrative responsibilities such as chairman of the department, residency coordinator, fellowship coordinator, clerkship coordinator.

What do you find attractive about academic medicine?

 

[circulus vitios]

http://medicine.missouri.edu/business/uploads/AAMC--FSS--2011-2012.xlsx

AAMC Data from 2011-2012
25th, 50th, 75th, Mean, Sample Size
FM Instructor: $135k, $168k, $227k, $181k, n=204
FM Assistant: $149k, $166k, $195k, $174k, n=1350
FM Associate: $164k, $182k, $210k, $188k, n=549
FM Professor: $180k, $201k, $228k, $210k, n=335
FM Chief: $194k, $208k, $244k, $229k, n=20
FM Chair: $257k, $296k, $328k, $296k, n=106