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Overreliance on M.D.-Ph.D.s for the physician scientist workforce will also exclude those who discover a passion for research after they have begun their undergraduate medical education.
Given the major changes in the research environment, and with the encouragement of program administrators at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, who used the results from the Zemlo et al. (8) study to develop training programs, we updated the earlier analysis to assess changes in the U.S. physician scientist workforce.
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"I think through this programme we have also ensured the sustainability and fitness for purpose in the future of the healthcare scientists' workforce to respond in a health system which is going to be driven by science and technology".
What are some of the fundamental causes for the decline in the physician-scientist workforce?
Top Image: CREDIT: NIH ACD Physician-Scientist Workforce Working Group Report.
2. Recommendations for Revitalizing the Nation's Physician-Scientist Workforce (Association of Professors of Medicine Physician-Scientist Initiative, Washington, D.C., 2008).
A robust physician-scientist workforce is key to bridging the gap between scientific knowledge and medical practice.
These numbers suggest that, however serious the problem of insufficient numbers entering the physician-scientist workforce, there's an even more important factor: The pipeline is broken, or at least leaking badly.
However, M.D.-Ph.D.s make up a minority of the total physician-scientist workforce, and Ph.D. training is not required for many types of research (see below), so an M.D.-Ph.D. program is by no means the only or even the best way to become a physician-scientist.
We haven't addressed work-life balance (yes, it's possible), the importance of mentorship (that will always be the case) and how to find it, the demographics of the physician-scientist workforce, or the changes in training and hiring that may occur over time as team science and big data become more common.6.6
A scientist entering the workforce can expect to change employers and jobs several times in their career.
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