Research Catalog

Title

The vanishing physician-scientist? / edited by Andrew I. Schafer.

Publication

Ithaca : ILR Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schafer, Andrew I.

Description

x, 287 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Culture and politics of health care work

Uniform Title

Culture and politics of health care work.

Subject

• Medicine > Research
• Physicians
• Medical scientists
• Biomedical Research
• Science

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Andrew J. Schafer -- 1. History of the Physician as Scientist / Andrew J. Schafer -- 2. Demographics of the Physician-Scientist Workforce: Impact of Age, Gender, Degrees, and Debt / Timothy J. Ley -- 3. The Ecology of Physician-Scientists in Academic Medicine / David Korn and Stephen J. Heinig -- 4. Translational Research and the Physician-Scientist / Barry S. Coller -- 5. Women as Physician-Scientists / Reshma Jagsi and Nancy J. Tarbell -- 6. Generation X and the Millennials in Academic Medicine: Developing the Next Generation of Physician-Scientists / Ann J. Brown -- 7. Engaging Undergraduate Students in Research: Sustaining Our Nation's Pipeline of Future Biomedical Investigators / Stephen G. Emerson, Philip Meneely and Jennifer Punt -- 8. The Role of Academic Medical Centers and Medical Schools in the Training and Support of Physician-Scientists / Philip A. Pizzo -- 9. The Relationship between Physicians and PhD Scientists in Medical Research / Roy L. Silverstein and Paul E. DiCorleto -- 10. Mentoring Physician-Scientists: Repairing the Leaky Pipeline / Kenneth Kaushansky -- 11. Mentoring the Physician-Scientist: A Developmental Approach / Alan L. Schwartz and Margaret K. Hostetter -- 12. The Attrition of Young Physician-Scientists: Problems and Potential Solutions / Mark Donowitz, James Anderson, Fabio Cominelli and Greg Germino -- 13. Restoring and Invigorating an "Endangered Species": Initiatives by the Association of American Medical Colleges / David Korn and Stephen J. Heinig -- 14. Revitalizing the Nation's Physician-Scientist Workforce: The Association of Professors of Medicine Initiative / Andrew J. Schafer -- 15. A Half Century of Clinical Research / David G. Nathan -- Epilogue: Looking Forward / Andrew J. Schafer.

ISBN

• 9780801448454 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 080144845X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009019282

OCLC

• ocn320799047
• 320799047
• SCSB-8857365

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries