Physiologists as medical scientists: An early warning from the German academic system.
funding
medical scientists
physiologists
professional development
training
white paper
Journal
Physiological reports
ISSN: 2051-817X
Titre abrégé: Physiol Rep
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101607800
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2024
Nov 2024
Historique:
revised:
07
09
2024
received:
12
06
2024
accepted:
07
09
2024
medline:
28
10
2024
pubmed:
28
10
2024
entrez:
27
10
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
"Medical scientists" are postgraduate investigators who are engaged in biomedical research, and either hold a biomedical PhD or are qualified in medicine but do not participate in patient care. Medical scientists constitute ~40% of staff at medical faculties and >90% at nonuniversity medical research institutions in Germany. However, medical scientists in Germany face limited long-term career prospects and a lack of dedicated training and support programmes. They also face time limits on their career progression arising from national academic employment legislation, and imminent reforms by the German government are likely to make this worse. Nevertheless, recent developments in the educational landscape including the introduction of increasingly focused MSc, pre-PhD, and doctoral programmes to train medically aware basic scientists, as well as improved general recognition of the roles and relevance of medical scientists in health research, are encouraging. Physiologists have taken essential steps to improve the recognition of medical scientists in Germany by introducing a "specialist physiologist" qualification; this initiative could be applied to support medical scientists in other fields and countries. In this review, we describe the particular challenges facing medical scientists in Germany and make recommendations that may apply to other academic systems.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
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Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Organisme : University Heart Centre Freiburg · Bad Krozingen
Informations de copyright
© 2024 The Author(s). Physiological Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society.
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