More than one-quarter of all job openings at medical schools for physician clinical investigators in patient-oriented research went unfilled in 2002-2004, according to a new analysis from the AAMC. Through a survey of clinical department chairs at U.S. medical schools, study authors examined the prevalence of open positions for physician clinical investigators, aswell as the rate at which those positions were filled during a two-year period. More than half of the clinical departments with openings for physician assistant professors reported that they were not able to fill allthe positions. Overall, 27 percent of the open positions in the country went unfilled. For more information, please visit http://www.aamc.org/juniorclinicalinvestigators.