<p>For the most part yes. As I spend more and more time in my clinical clerkships I’m coming to find that our classic definition of “academic medicine” position - an MD who combines research, clinical teaching and patient care - is, at least at my medical school, a lot less common than I originally thought while in my first and second years. This seems particularly true in primary care areas - peds, internal medicine (as opposed to surgery or the surgical subspecialties, although again, classic academians are fewer than I originally estimated)- where the professors are much more focused on clinical teaching and patient care. For these positions, where research is not a major job component, where you received your MD isn’t as important as it might be for this board’s usual description of “Academic Medicine”.</p>