One of the most exciting aspects of being a medical school faculty member is the opportunity to engage in innovation, either by developing new approaches yourself or by utilizing and evaluating those of others. Innovations are continuously becoming available and in medicine they are often offered first to academic faculty. This provides you with unique opportunities to adopt new approaches and techniques and to improve upon them, which may enhance your clinical, research, and educational achievements. Your ability to succeed in a constantly evolving field often depends upon foreseeing future developments and leveraging them to improve outcomes and impact. As a medical school faculty member, you have the opportunity to be at the cutting edge of developing and utilizing new tools for your field. Nevertheless, there are advantages and disadvantages to being an innovator and early adopter of new ideas, techniques, or inventions that you should consider carefully rather than waiting for others to test them first.