S19-4. Bioethical Roles a Clinical Pharmacologist should Play in Clinical Research

The clinical pharmacologist.

THE controversy over prescribing drugs by their trade or approved names is a source of embarrassment to teachers of therapeutics like myselfwho have, for many years, taught medical students and young doctors to prescribe by approved names, leaving the choice of preparation to the pharmacist, on the assumption that 'the drug is the same'. Today we have to eat our words and recognize, in Sir Phil...

Ethics in Clinical Research

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Dolutegravir monotherapy: when should clinical practice be clinical research?

Clinical research 101: Why should you care?

In this issue’s Clinical Research Capsule, we ask the fundamental question: “Why care about research?” Clinicians sometimes have a distanced attitude towards research. The reasons for this are many: conducting research is difficult; it is only for those who are statistically minded; it means having NIH or equivalent funding; finally, it does not pertain to them as research is separate from pati...

Should medical research have a place in future clinical training?

AIM To determine the attitudes of training grade (Senior House Officer - SHO, Specialist Registrar - SpR) and non-training grade doctors (both Staff Grade and senior or Consultant level) towards the place of research in the curriculum for junior doctors and also the pursuit of research by senior (but non-academic) clinicians. MATERIALS AND METHODS A survey of a range of doctors from differing...