Opinion & special articles: a guide from fellowship to faculty: Nietzsche and the academic neurologist

Opinion & Special Articles: Navigating Your First Academic Job Search. Pearls, Pitfalls, and Lessons Learned

Most graduating neurology residents plan to pursue an academic career after completing residency or fellowship training. Although a career in academic neurology has many benefits, the path to finding the right first academic job can be challenging. For many, this may be their first professional job, and finding an ideal academic position requires a tailored approach, focus, timeline, and scope. In this article, we outline a roadmap for navigating the first academic job search after neurology training and share pearls and pitfalls related to the job search.

Discovering Factors that Influence Physician Scientist Success in Academic Medical Centers

This study investigated factors influencing success of physician scientists in Academic Medical Centers. These organizations and individuals drive healthcare in the United States. Translation of scientific discovery to medical practice moves at an astoundingly slow and ineffective rate. We must understand what contributes to physician scientist success to speed up translation. Through a lens of dialectic process theory, a grounded theory approach identified emergent factors from lived experiences of 31 individuals, at various experience levels, with MD and PhD degrees. Role balance, autonomy, organizational support, teamwork, life-cycle mentorship, and relational capacity were relevant factors impacting success. Role balance was important for success. Teamwork, organizational support, and life-cycle mentorship helped individuals grow, achieve balance, and respect, but relational capacity emerged as a critical driver for realizing both individual and organizational success. One person cannot execute these complex roles on their own, but development of deep and meaningful relationships through teamwork, collaboration, and life-cycle mentorship are essential for life satisfaction and success.

The European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainees in 2013: striking a blow for European junior neurologists

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

The main objective of the European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainees (EAYNT), an independent Brussels-based association of junior neurologists, is to represent and promote the interests of European junior neurologists.

METHODS AND RESULTS

A wide variety of projects and activities are ongoing, carried out by members of the organization in close collaboration with major European and National Neurology bodies. Most recently, we surveyed European junior neurologists about their views on the European Board of Neurology Examination, the status of e-learning in postgraduate neurology training and migration patterns of young neurologists.

CONCLUSIONS

The aim of this paper is to outline the current and future activities of the EAYNT. We run a series of lectures ('EAYNT special sessions') at the major European conferences and disseminate information to young neurologists at the EAYNT booth. We provide information about travel grants, fellowships as well as sharing personal experiences of working abroad. EAYNT members have the opportunity to sit on the scientific subcommittees of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) and European Neurological Society (ENS), to chair poster sessions and review abstracts. Furthermore, we continue to provide a forum for young neurologists from all over Europe to network and socialize by means of get-together events and hospital visits.