Editors' note: The state of academic neurology departments in the United States, 2016: A national survey

Dr. Gooch's review of a 2016 national survey of neurology department chairs revealed that most neurology faculty members are not on tenure track, and 38% of neurology departments have some clinical service faculty with no assigned educational or research duties.(1) Further, a separate 2016 survey of US neurologists, conducted by the American Academy of Neurology, showed that the overall effort by academic neurologists toward education and research has markedly dropped, with an average of 16.4% of their time on research and 11.3% on teaching; the medians for both research and education are 10%.(2) In contrast, academic physicians spent 58% of their time on educational and research activities in 1984 compared to 27.7% in 2016.(3</SUP)