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Edited by Thomas R. Cole, Thelma J. Goodrich, and Ellen R. Gritz
230 pp, $79.95
Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-6032-7450-0

JAMA. 2009;302(12):1343-1344.

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Many faculty members in academic medical centers complain of continually increasing productivity targets, increasing demands on shrinking time, and less satisfaction in their work—all of which diminishes the mental and physical health of the faculty member. Institutional leaders bemoan the difficulty of recruiting and retaining faculty to academic medicine, and residents frequently report that they see little in the work lives of their faculty mentors that attracts them to careers in academic medicine. Because of the pervasiveness of these views, it is critical that academic medical centers examine and address the causes of these phenomena.

This is the broad premise of Faculty Health in Academic Medicine, which comprises the edited proceedings of a 3-day conference on faculty health and well-being. The conference, organized by and held at the University of Texas at Houston in 2007, invited scholars and leaders in a wide range of disciplines and perspectives to lay . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Larry D. Gruppen, PhD, Reviewer
Department of Medical Education
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor
lgruppen@umich.edu

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