@article{4ec895244a9d47e6b5c701293a33d787,
title = "The contributions of physician-scientists within divisions of infectious diseases",
abstract = "Physician-scientists, no matter their particular disease or research focus, within divisions of infectious diseases serve a number of key roles. Foremost, they promote scholarship and excellence in research endeavors with the potential for impact not only within their division or university but globally. These individuals also make important contributions to the training experiences of infectious diseases fellows and internal medicine residents, helping to foster an understanding of how evidence-based (or not) our patient care delivery actually is. Ongoing discussions between those focused on the clinical aspects of infectious diseases and those predominantly pursuing research questions enrich the scholarly environment for both physician groups and provides the foundation for translating the science to improved care for patients with infectious diseases.",
keywords = "career development, physician-scientist, research",
author = "Sears, {Cynthia L.}",
note = "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 Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Funding Information: Although broader definitions of a physician-scientist are increasingly embraced, at the initiation of and for much of my career, use of the term “physician-scientist” most often inferred a physician with a strong interest in laboratory research—one “foot” in the laboratory and one “foot” in the clinic. This type of laboratory-based research wherein questions pertinent to the prevention, pathogenesis, or therapy of infectious diseases are pursued in the laboratory has been typically supported by investigator-initiated grants, such as classic National Institutes of Health R01 grants. How a physician-scientist should be defined today, however, is a complex and nuanced topic that has, in my estimation, changed over the past 2 decades. The evolution of the use of the term “physician-scientist” is arguably most evident in the arena of “clinical investigation.” Clinical investigation as a field now employs increasingly rigorous training paths that have become essentially mandatory for physician investigators focused on population health, epidemiology, and the increasingly complex methods utilized to analyze large human datasets and to control for factors that impact or confound the results so as to limit misleading or incorrect conclusions. Similar to the “classic” laboratory-based physician-scientist path, these clinical investigators conduct rigorous clinical investigations garnering extramural grant support. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The Author(s).",
year = "2018",
month = aug,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1093/infdis/jiy206",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "218",
pages = "S16--S19",
journal = "Journal of Infectious Diseases",
issn = "0022-1899",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
}