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Nature 440, 740 (6 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/440740b; Published online 5 April 2006
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Assistant or Associate Professor - Cell & Systems Biology
- University of Toronto
- Toronto, ON Canada
Basic Science Medical Educators
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
- El Paso, Texas, USA
Physician–scientists are needed now more than ever
Ajit Varki1, Edward Holmes2, Tadataka Yamada3, Peter Agre4 & Sydney Brenner5
- School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92039-0687, USA
- University of California, San Diego, USA
- GlaxoSmithKline, Pennsylvania, USA
- Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA
- The Salk Institute, San Diego, California, USA
Your News Feature "Them and us no longer" (Nature 439, 779–780; 2006), about the narrowing divide between medical doctors and PhD scientists, ends with a disturbing assumption: that "the era of the physician–scientist [is drawing] to a close". As medical doctors who have spent our careers in science, we strongly favour programmes that expose PhD researchers to the realities of clinical medicine.
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