Careers for Clinician Investigators

Careers for clinician investigators.

For the purposes of this article, we define clinical research as that form of medical research that involves human beings as the direct subjects of the research at the individual or a population level. The research may involve the study of biological samples (eg, blood, genes, proteins, and tissue) as a means to understand the individual or the group, but the ultimate objective for the clinical...

Careers in academic medicine: the clinician scientist scheme.

when describing the current state of academic medicine in the UK. To take an optimistic view, the use of this term does imply recognition of a serious problem, and might stimulate attempts to solve it. A recent report from the Council of Heads of Medical Schools highlights some of the problems1. Over 10% of clinical academic posts remain unfilled despite a clear requirement for even greater num...

New careers , more complex careers ?

The article deals with the question whether careers have indeed become more complex during the last years and/or decades by applying methods stemming from chaos research. The movements of 215 business school graduates from two different cohorts (graduation around 1970 and 1990 respectively) along two career-related dimensions (coupling, i.e. careerrelated security, dependency, and number of job...

Alternative careers for physicians.

New careers for antioxidants.

I t is a remarkable fact that antioxidants are nontoxic compounds that reduce the incidence of cancer. Antioxidant nutrients such as vitamin E, -carotene, lycopene, and selenium are regularly found to reduce the risk of lung, prostate, stomach, or total cancers, as well as oral precancers, in epidemiologic studies (1). Foods containing these nutrients are similarly effective, as are nondietary ...