Welcome to The Odyssey, a podcast for budding clinician-researchers embarking on their academic journeys. In this debut episode, hosts Simon Couillard and Sanjay Ramakrishnan share their personal stories and candid experiences navigating the complex world of medicine and research.
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Episode 4 - Journal club: Surveying Academic Job Offers
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In this episode of The Odyssey, hosts and guests Dr. Catherine Gao and Dr. Emily Olson discuss a survey of U.S. pulmonary and critical care graduates (2020–2025) about their first academic job offers. They explore wide variability in salaries, startup packages, protected time, and hidden policies like cost-sharing. Key takeaways include that physic…
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Congratulations! You've negotiated protected time and set up your clinic, but now you realise you're running a small business. Surprise! Join Simon Couillard and Imran Satia as they tackle the reality nobody prepared you for: research costs money, and managing it is a skill you should ideally not learn by trial and error. From startup funds that va…
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This episode guides early-career clinician-researchers through practical strategies for balancing clinical duties and research: negotiating protected research time, avoiding inheriting heavy general clinics, setting up specialty clinics that support recruitment, and using buddy systems and staff relationships to protect and grow your research progr…
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Simon Couillard and Sanjay Ramakrishnan discuss their paths from medical school to becoming assistant professors in different parts of the world, the challenges they faced in securing academic positions, and the importance of mentorship and community in their careers. They delve into their time at Oxford, the decisions that shaped their career path…
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