Integration of research into endoscopic practice

I work in an institution in which research is valued, but you do not need to do it to maintain a successful practice. Nor do you need to publish to move up the administrative food chain. Why then do members of our Digestive Disease Institute (DDI) have 138 active research projects as of this writing and routinely publish 50 to 100 peer-reviewed articles yearly? Admittedly, these are not all endoscopy-driven research projects. They include studies from other components of the DDI (GI surgeons, oncologists, pathologists, and interventional radiologists as well as, in our shop, an endocrinologist who is the director of our Nutritional Center of Excellence).

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