academic careers to include long hours, limitations to family life, bureaucracy, publishing requirements, lack of mentorship and income.5
It remains to be determined whether the drive towards academia shown in this study is due to the Millennials preferences about belonging to a group, current anxiety about the health care environment, an increasing appeal of academia, expanding capacity in academic health care, or a combination of the above, but it is certainly a welcome development from the academic perspective, where recruitment has sometimes been challenging.
Acknowledgment
We are indebted to Galderma and the AAD who provided administrative support for this study.
Disclosure
The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
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