Triple Threat Clinicians

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Most everyone in medicine familiar with the concept of the academic triple-threat which evolved in the 1960s. The ideal academic physician: 1) performed original primary research 2) trained medical students and residents and 3) provided high-quality clinical care. It was, and is, a noble aspiration. It’s also increasingly impossible. If it ever was possible, enthusiasm among students to become the medical Ubermensch was already quickly eroding 30 years ago (if you don’t believe me, see here). Nonetheless, the idea survives, and I would hazard a guess most medical students are still aware of it. But medicine has changed a lot in the last 50 years. Clinical workloads now average 30–40 patients per day in clinic. In my field, Orthopedics, surgical caseload averages 32 cases a month, and in my subspecialty, Sports Medicine, this tends to be a little more. Most of us still take call without adjusting our schedules. The pressure to increase productivity is ever growing as academic centers fe

Is It Still Possible to Be A Triple-Threat in Modern Medicine? Brian Gilmer, MD • Orthopaedic Surgery Oct 8, 2018 Op-Med is a collection of original essays contributed by Doximity members. Image: khanbua/Shutterstock Most everyone in medicine familiar with the concept of the academic triple-threat which evolved in the 1960s. The ideal academic physician: 1) performed original primary research 2) trained medical students and residents and 3) provided high-quality clinical care. It was, and is, a noble aspiration. It’s also increasingly impossible. If it ever was possible, enthusiasm among

Triple Threat Clinicians

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