[AUDIO LOGO] JENNIFER ADAMS, MD: I love that in academic medicine, there's no room for complacency. It's all driven by growth and that thirst for knowledge and people are pushing you from all around, your colleagues, the residents that you're teaching, the medical students, the staff, the patients who tend to have a more complex background. It's all pushing you to learn and to continue to grow. And I love that kind of environment for my day to day job, just making sure that I continue to grow as a person and as a physician as well. 

MEGHAN ARTHUR, MD: I'm really passionate about teaching residents and medical students and bettering their education in any way that I can. I think it provides an excellent opportunity for me to take care of the kind of patients that I want to, which are those that have really complicated dermatologic diseases. And then I think it provides really excellent collaboration with all of the other specialties that we have here on our campus. 

KRISTIE HAYES, MD: I've always enjoyed teaching. When I was in college, I actually worked here in the emergency department and was able to see a long time ago how physicians were able to teach other residents and residents were able to teach students and how all knowledge benefited the patient. 

ADAM SUTTON, MD: Academic medicine has always been of something that's been of significant interest to me. And having the opportunity to come back to UNMC and Nebraska Medicine is really a tremendous honor. There are a lot of things that I like about academic medicine. 

The opportunity to work with trainees of all different levels, from medical students to advanced training at the fellow level, to be able to collaborate with specialists and thought leaders in other areas of medicine, and then ultimately to be able to take care of patients in a multidisciplinary and group setting and really care for some of the most challenging cases. I think that these are all things that made me really excited about coming back. 

ASHLEY WYSONG, MD, dermatology department chair: Being a part of an academic environment is absolutely exhilarating for me. So every aspect of it, from obviously caring for patients with the very sickest of the sick and being able to make an impact on a daily basis in the lives of patients is just unbelievable. But to also be able to share that clinical experience with learners of all stages, whether it's medical students, undergraduate students, resident doctors in training, or very subspecialized fellowship training, teaching is just a passion of mine. And I love to be able to share that with others. 

And then finally, being on the cutting edge of every aspect of medicine, particularly in dermatology, you really can only do that in an academic medical center, where you're able to truly combine the expertise of a scientist with the clinical experience of a physician and really get that true bench-to-bedside approach to every single patient. And I've always loved that aspect of it.