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Mark Frisse describes how he, as a tenured professor, left medicine for the business world and returned to academic medicine with valuable lessons and skills

Gretchen P Purcell describes how she paid for her undergraduate and professional education while working at unique jobs that advanced her career

We have some answers, but implementing good decision support is still hard C linical decision support is the provision of “clinical knowledge and patient-related information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance patient care.”1 Medical institutions are increasingly adopting tools that offer decision support to improve patient outcomes and reduce errors. Healthcare providers and administrators with little or no training in computer science may be asked to evaluate, select, or contribute to the development of decision support systems for their practices. Is there an easy way to determine which clinical decision support systems are good? In this issue Kawamoto and colleagues provide some evidence based guidance in a systematic analysis of the ability of decision support systems to improve practice in …

Supporting your studies with evening or weekend work may make sense. Gretchen P Purcell describes how she paid for her undergraduate and professional education doing unique jobs that advanced her career

Karen Sliwa-Hahnle explains how she became a world expert in a rare form of cardiomyopathy while seeing the world and starting a family, and she offers advice to aspiring academics