The Development of a Physician-Investigator Training Program

Recent reports have vividly documented a decline in the number of physicians entering careers in investigation and the threat that this decline poses to the biomedical-research structure that has existed for the past 30 years. 1 2 3 4 This curtailed interest and participation of physicians in biomedical research is mirrored by medical students' declining interest in research careers. 5 , 6 The reasons for this change in attitude toward biomedical research include a shift in priorities secondary to the social upheaval produced by the Vietnam War, personal economic considerations, a decrease in the time devoted to research and laboratory work in medical school, an increase in . . .