TY - JOUR
AU1 - Schrier, Robert W.
AB - Extended Abstracts of Invited Papers Special Lecture: Franz Volhard Medal Award Kidney Blood Press Res 1998;21:211–212 Robert W. Schrier Ensuring the Survival of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Clinician-Scientist Denver, Colo., USA Multiple forces threaten the survival of the physician- ing. Sufficient flexibility is present in the program to ac- scientist as an academic species. Among these forces are: commodate all types of schedules. (1) the changing health environment; (2) greater complexi- The time required to complete the PhD program in clin- ty and rapid advances in biomedical science which demand ical science will be a minimum of 1 year of subspecialty total ‘retooling’ of the MD-PhD graduate of medical sci- clinical training, depending on the subspecialty, and 3 years ence training programs after completion of their clinical of research training. This will follow 2 or 3 years of resi- training; (3) longer and more rigorous research training re- dency training, since physicians planning to enter academic quired to adequately train physician-scientists; (4) less medical careers may opt to complete their residency in 2 funding for subspecialty training positions; (5) perception years and progress directly to the PhD program. Thus, in a that the ‘successful’ physician-scientists in 
TI - Ensuring the Survival of the Clinician–Scientist
JF - Kidney and Blood Pressure Research
DO - 10.1159/000025856
DA - 2008-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/karger/ensuring-the-survival-of-the-clinician-scientist-SXxHWCFhyT
SP - 211
EP - 212
VL - 21
IS - 2-4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -