Working at a Teaching Hospital

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I was wondering if physicians who work at a teaching hospital (linked to a medical school) are REQUIRED to do research or not. I love the teaching aspect of it, but I don't know if I would want to do research in the future. Insight from anyone would be appreciated!

 

[hoihaie]

I was wondering if physicians who work at a teaching hospital (linked to a medical school) are REQUIRED to do research or not. I love the teaching aspect of it, but I don't know if I would want to do research in the future. Insight from anyone would be appreciated!

no, there are faculties that only teach and not research

 

[IlDestriero]

no, there are faculties that only teach and not research

Yes, there are non research tracks available for faculty. However your specific department may or may not be interested in hiring non research faculty. I don't have a research requirement, but most other departments at my hospital require research from all their faculty. They have set aside significant protected non clinical time to facilitate that work.
So one could be a pediatric neurosurgeon, for example, at a major children's hospital and be on the faculty of the affiliated medical school with no research requirement, but not at my place.

 

[ems2doc]

Depends on the department. Some do, some don't. I know that at our academic medical center it varies significantly:

At my hospital here's who does research:
Emergency Medicine - Only about three out of 26 faculty do active research (although one of them has a nationally known program with over $1,000,000 in a federal D.O.D. grant)
Neurosurgery - Every doc does research. No exceptions. I don't think they would consider hiring a neurosurg doc who doesn't do some level of research.
Internal Medicine - Some do, some don't. Majority don't.
Pediatrics - Very active research team. Most docs do research. Some don't though. Well known-pediatric research center. (Some academic hospitals don't have any pediatric research at all, for comparison)


We also have several non-physician scientists who do medical research.

It really varies from place to place.

 

[NickNaylor]

I was wondering if physicians who work at a teaching hospital (linked to a medical school) are REQUIRED to do research or not. I love the teaching aspect of it, but I don't know if I would want to do research in the future. Insight from anyone would be appreciated!

You would want to learn about clinical teaching tracks.

 

[LizzyM]

Also, keep in mind that not all research is conducted in laboratories. The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute ( PCORI) has millions in research funding. See http://www.pcori.org/
Even if lab research is not appealing you might be interested in testing whether new ways of caring for patients results in better outcomes for patients.

 

[ems2doc]

Also, keep in mind that not all research is conducted in laboratories. The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute ( PCORI) has millions in research funding. See http://www.pcori.org/
Even if lab research is not appealing you might be interested in testing whether new ways of caring for patients results in better outcomes for patients.

I second this. In fact, in many places most lab research is done by non-physicians.