Challenges and opportunities for reinvigorating the physician-scientist pipeline

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 883-887

  Daye, Dania ^a   Patel, Chirag B ^b   Ahn, Jaimo ^c   Nguyen, Freddy T ^d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; MANPOWER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSONNEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAREER CHOICE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924051403     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI80933     Document Type: Review

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