They're both on a spectrum. Medical school faculty, especially in soft-money positions, might never set foot in a classroom. Some of them will even have labs t

They're both on a spectrum. Medical school faculty, especially in soft-money positions, might never set foot in a classroom. Some of them will even have labs that are almost entirely postdocs and technicians. This doesn't seem wildly different from a research institute to me. If anything, the funding is probably less stable too, since you're on your own.