This book provides an overview of the unique aspects related to a university based clinical practice. The development of relationships with senior colleagues and referring providers, building multidisciplinary programs within an academic institution, financing of academic medicine, and issues specific to the speciality are discussed.

Building a Clinical Practice aims to highlight the importance of developing a successful clinical practice in an academic setting and to help guide readers through the challenges associated with that process.

This book is relevant to senior surgical trainees and young surgical faculty who are facing the challenges associated with developing a clinical practice.

1. Clinical practice in the context of an academic career

2. Framing your academic career early
3. Financial considerations
4. Balance with being clinical and saying yes
5. Specialty-specific considerations
6. "Availability, Ability, and Affability"
7. Relationships within your department/institution
8. Building multidisciplinary programs
9. Basic science lab with clinical practice
10. Health services research / clinical practice
11. Education / clinical practice
12. Clinical trials / clinical practice
13. When to Say Yes or No (academic activities)
14. Joining and become involved with surgical societies
15. Understanding Finances of Medicine
16. Building relationships with hospital administrators
17. New technologies - learning/utilizing/how to bring innovation to a hospital
18. VA
19. Community-affiliated academics
20. County Hospitals
21. Balancing multi-site practices/outreach in academics
22. Cardiothoracic
23. Vascular
24. Endocrine.-25. Robotic surgery
26. Colorectal
27. Bariatrics
28. Breast
29. Transplant
30. Surgical Oncology
31. Pediatric Surgery
32. Trauma/ACS.