@article{51dee08fc4584bb6acc18d748abc367e,
title = "Balancing Research, Teaching, Clinical Care, and Family: Can Physician-Scientists Have it All?",
abstract = "Unprecedented opportunities for research into basic biologic mechanisms, novel diagnostic approaches and therapies, population and outcomes medicine, health policy, and health services now exist, expanding the role of those who understand both patient care and research. Despite this, the total number of physician-scientists in the United States is declining and the average age of physician- scientists increasing. An important cause of the declining physician-scientist workforce is both real and perceived threats to quality of life in choosing this career path. Researchers dually trained in medicine and in the rigors of scientific research have contributed and will undoubtedly continue to contribute substantially to advancing medical care if encouraged to do so. Training programs and workplaces that address threats to quality of life and support strategies that have proven successful in inspiring talented people to pursue the physician-scientist career path are needed to produce, attract, and retain more physician-scientists.",
keywords = "MD-PhD program, MSTP, advanced parental age, child care, clinician scientist, medical scientist training program, physician-scientist, physician-scientist workforce, work-life balance",
author = "Cox, {Andrea L.}",
note = "Funding Information: It is also critical for trainees and junior physician-scientists to seek mentoring from a diversity of supportive sources until sex and racial imbalances are rectified. While there may be fewer role models who look like they do, mentors for those underrepresented among physician-scientists can and should come from diverse backgrounds. Mentoring from diverse sources can actually benefit the trainee. Learning to identify, reflect upon, learn from, and engage with diverse perspectives is critical to forming and maintaining an effective mentoring relationship [9]. Most successful physician-scientists can name one or more clinical and scientific mentors who supported them in their early careers who differ from their racial or ethnic background and/or sex. Forming connections with senior mentors who have financial capacity to support researchers is also key because junior awards like NIH K grants often lack sufficient research funds above salary support to perform meaningful research. Funding Information: Supplement sponsorship. This work is part of a supplement sponsored by the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research P30 AI060354. Funding Information: Financial support. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences (grant number T32 GM007309). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2018.",
year = "2018",
month = sep,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1093/infdis/jiy134",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "218",
pages = "S32--S35",
journal = "Journal of Infectious Diseases",
issn = "0022-1899",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
}