You teach medicine in a medical school or residency program — covering clinical medicine, pathophysiology, and the clinical reasoning physicians develop over training. Half academic faculty, half practicing or recently practicing physician.
Most days tend to involve a blend of classroom and small-group teaching, clinical supervision, and continued clinical practice — leading didactic sessions, supervising medical students or residents on rotations, and seeing your own patients. You'll often spend part of the time on scholarly or service work that academic appointments expect.
The harder part is often balancing the multiple demands of teaching, clinical care, and scholarship simultaneously. You'll typically work with learners at varied levels of clinical readiness, calibrating teaching across the range while staying credible clinically with patients and colleagues.
People who tend to thrive here are clinically grounded, patient teachers, and willing to invest in the long arc of medical education. The trade-off is the salary differential between academic and full clinical practice and the cumulative work of carrying multiple identities. If you find satisfaction in shaping clinicians who go on to practice for decades, the work can carry meaning that pure clinical practice doesn't.
Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.
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You teach medicine in a medical school or residency program — covering clinical medicine, pathophysiology, and the clinical reasoning physicians develop over training. Half academic faculty, half practicing or recently practicing physician.
Median pay for a Medicine Teacher is about $106K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $52K to $208K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Speaking, Instructing, Writing, and Critical Thinking.
Most people in this role hold a master's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 17.3% through 2034, with roughly 229,720 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Health Teacher, First Aid Teacher, and Clinical Instructor.
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