Teaching load for MD/PhD faculty?

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If an MD/PhD (lets say it practices medicine anywhere from 5-20%) is working at a medical school, how would its teaching load usually compare to PhD-only or non-practicing MD/PhD faculty? Would it be lower?

 

[StIGMA]

Variable depending on arrangement but almost always lower. Our department averages about 3-4 lectures/year total, essentially the same as the clinical faculty. Can be highly variable. You're hopefully not earning your salary from teaching.

 

[SurfingDoctor]

Your job is to get grants, publish papers, etc. The teaching is left up to (mostly) those who pursue a clinician-educator... which is most academic clinicians. You have to dabble in it as you have to show some effort in the service and education categories, but research is the focus and everything comes second... until you lose division members and have to see more patients to make up the difference. Then it become patient care and billing >>>> research >>>>>>>> education (what’s that).