Exploring the Landscape for Physician-Scientist Training and Career Development

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This report is designed for institutions seeking models and potential strategies to better support their physician-scientist learners and early-career faculty in navigating known barriers to their success.

OVERVIEW AND BENEFITS

This comprehensive report serves as an invaluable resource for institutions aiming to enhance support for their physician-scientist learners and early-career faculty. Through detailed case studies from eleven institutions, this report provides a roadmap to spark conversation and reflection on diverse approaches to improve physician-scientist training and career development.

Key Benefits:

• Essential Role of Physician-Scientists: Highlights the critical role of physician-scientists in bridging research and clinical care, driving medical innovation, and addresses the declining number of professionals entering the field.
• Early and Continuous Exposure to Research: Emphasizes the importance of early and continuous exposure to research during medical training to heighten interest and increase the number of future physician-scientists.
• Addressing Career Vulnerabilities: Showcases successful strategies from 11 institutions for supporting physician-scientists during high-risk transition stages, such as the shift from residency to early-career faculty, through university leadership and investment.
• Innovative Institutional Support Models: Identifies three institutional support models that foster collaboration across departments and ensure physician-scientists thrive at all career stages.

This report is a must-have for any institution looking to bolster its physician-scientist training and career development programs.

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