Career Options for Medical Students to follow: Academia

Theodoros Xanthos MD, Pg Dip (Ed), MSc, MRes (EdD), PhD, FHEA, FAcadMEd, FCP, FERC, ERT, FESC

Professor of Medicine European University CyprusERC Medical Educator Trainer (Europe)

President Hellenic Society of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

The first Step: Doctorate; Necessary? Not always

The doctorate and its history The first PhD was

awarded in Paris in 1150

The modern PhD originated from 19th century Germany

The first American PhD was awarded from Yale in 1861

It arrived in Oxford in 1920 and is still named DPhil

Harvard awarded an applied Doctorate EdD in Education in 1920

UK awarded its first applied doctorates 70 years later

Now, there are Senior Doctorates

Faculty Non-tenured faculty Lecturer Assistant Professor Associate Professor Professor

Continuous Professional Development

Are all Universities the same?

The dual mission

EducationResearch

Barnett, R. (2004). The purposes of higher education and the changing face of academia. London Review of Education, 2(1), 61–73.

The “publish or perish” idea

Gods of Management

Handy, C. 1991.

The existential culture of the faculty

Handy, C. 1991.

Clark’s Triangle Government

Market

Collegial

Clark, 1983

Faculty

StudentsAdmin

Central Governance

• Academia

• Government

• Global Human Agency

• Local Human Agency

Students/

Community

International Students

KnowledgeRegulation

University

Trow, M. (2006). Reflections on the transition from

elite to mass to universal access: Forms and

phases of higher education in modern societies

since WWII. In J. J. F. Forest & P.G. Altbach

(Eds.), International handbook of higher

education (pp. 243–280). Dordrecht, Netherlands:

Springer.

Marginson, S., & Rhoades, G. (2002). Beyond national

states, markets, and systems of higher education: A

glonacal agency heuristic. Higher Education, 43(3),

281–309

Social Transformation

Crossley, 2003

University

Community

If you are an Academic:Different but the same