The Gifted Outlier in Academic Medicine: Toward a Balanced Framework for Recognizing Diverse Excellence
Dimitrios Moris · 2025
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Dimitrios Moris writes a 2025 editorial on a tense topic in academic medicine: the rare scholar who produces far more work than peers. Schools now judge staff by counts of papers, cites, and grants. A few people score far above the norm, and they can draw students and raise a school's name.
Moris argues that such output also raises fair doubts. It can strain authorship norms, oversight of data, and fair shares of funds and time. He sets out a way to define these outliers and lists forces that may drive them. His plea is to honor many kinds of merit, from care and teaching to lab work, while keeping firm guards for honesty and fairness.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Dimitrios Moris |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |