School will train doctor-researchers. (New Model of Medical School).(Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University)

Are you an accomplished, enthusiastic physician-investigator who can inspire medical students to chase their dream of advancing biomedical research and clinical practice?

If so, you might fit the bill to be a guest lecturer for students on the first day of an innovative medical school: the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. The school is slated to open in July 2004.

"On the first day of school, I want the students to meet someone who is an incredibly charismatic physician-investigator to talk to them about what they do and how they got to where they are, and what excites them about it," said Dr. Lindsey Henson, vice dean for education and academic affairs at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).

The goal of the new college is to educate medical doctors who intend to devote their careers to patient-oriented clinical research, a segment of medical science that has experienced serious growth problems for more than 30 years, …