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To the Editor: In describing the failure to integrate clinician-educators into the traditional academic milieu, Levinson and Rubenstein (Sept. 9 issue)¹ have focused on the symptom, an outmoded promotions process, and not the underlying disease, the fact that excellence in teaching is undervalued and not the primary mission of most academic medical centers. Our data from one institution with a long-standing non-tenure track showed that winners of a "Teacher of the Year" award left the department sooner than nonwinners, even after adjustment for age, rank, and career track.²

Although medical education is the mission that sets academic medical centers and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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