So to more closely associate themselves in the public mind with sound science, physicians began donning the lab coats that were being worn by chemists and other laboratory types.
It is a luxury and pleasure to have the intellectual freedom to pursue our scientific ideas, interact with talented and thoughtful physicians and scientists across the world, and mentor the next generation of physician-scientists. Furthermore, in contrast to some other areas of science, physician-scientists enjoy a strong employment market and abundant opportunity.
In an era before the acceptance of modern germ science, physicians saw little need for cleanliness or hygiene.
MiSciNet Editor Robin Arnette takes a snapshot of the Student Research Program at the American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI) in Birmingham in the US, a unique centre in that it trains both sports science physicians and researchers.
It will bring together basic scientists from the biological, physical, behavioral and social sciences, physician-scientists from the medical school, and faculty from the schools of public policy, social service administration and business.
She graduated from St . Johns University with a bachelor's degree in science and physician assistant stUniversity
To the Editor: Gary Taubes does an excellent job of describing public confusion about cholesterol and cholesterol-lowering drugs, but most of that confusion derives not from science or physicians but from pervasive misinformation in pharmaceutical marketing in public media.
Rather the context of the science changed: physicians and medical authorities came to accept the idea that a condition known as metabolic syndrome is a major, if not the major, risk factor for heart disease and diabetes.
Our outstanding translational environment has been reinforced by the establishment of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM) where the strong multidisciplinary team science between physicians and scientists translates lab discoveries to clinical gains.
In an effort to establish psychiatry as a legitimate medical science, German physicians in the period from the 1890s to the late 1920s created a standardized terminology, one that eventually formed the basis of our present-day diagnostic manual of mental illness.
