Sapere Aude!: the 2009 Excellence in Research Lecture.

摘要

THIS essay is based on my remarks in acceptance of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Excellence in Research Award at the 2009 Annual Meeting. I used the great honor bestowed by the Society to acknowledge and thank a few-but certainly not all-of the many folks who made it possible for me to be considered for that award. I then used the opportunity to make a number of editorial and philosophical comments about certain aspects of career development that I find to be mission critical for the health and safety of our specialty. These topics are discussed here and concern mentorship and how productivity and independence relate during career development of junior faculty. The second broad area was commentary on how we, as a specialty, might consider thinking ourselves out of intellectual handcuffs: thinking beyond the confines of our clinical horizons in terms of academic inquiry.