This paper reports the recruitment, socialization, and retention of a faculty of medicine. The study shows the process of M.D. and Ph.D. conversion to academic medicine through socialization and the factors which affect retention and attrition of a medical faculty. The research utilizes Sherlock and Morris' professional development paradigm. As for the recruitment, socialization, and retention of a medical school faculty, the principal findings include the greater importance of latent over manifest variables (and of on-the-job socialization), the lateness of the M.D. recruitment, the extraordinary solidarity resulting from M.D. inbreeding, the greater adoption of university professoriate norms by the Ph.D.'s, and the high goal agreement which exists between basic scientists and clinical faculty. (Author/MJM)