Zeitschrift für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie
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Academic careers often place the burden of research on top of clinical work. This conflict denotes a demanding task especially in surgical disciplines, such as orthopaedics and traumatology. Driven by changes in the social system, concerning, e.g., leisure and parentship, the future organisation of the academic workplace needs to address these individual issues. With the aim to evaluate individual motivation towards combining research, clinical work and private life and to receive suggestions for improvement we conducted a survey addressing residents employed in the orthopaedic and traumatological departments of German university hospitals. ⋯ Individual solutions seem to be necessary to achieve a scheduled efficiency of clinical and research careers. This includes structural developments (like a professionally headed lab) and the establishment of dynamic clinical structures. It seems possible that the clinical organisation of physicians in teams might offer solutions to cope with the demands of surgical training and clinical care on the one hand and research on the other hand.