Office of the Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Training UCSD

Articles and Presentations about Physician-Scientists

Hede, Karyn. The Job Outlook for Physician-Scientists.  December 5, 2008.  http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.orgView Article

Varki A, Holmes E, Yamada T, Agre P, Brenner S. Physician-Scientists are Needed Now More than Ever. Nature. 2006 Apr 6;440(7085):740.  View Article

Ley TJ & Rosenberg LE. The Physician-Scientist Career Pipeline in 2005. Build It, and They Will Come. JAMA 294:1343-1351. View Article

Rosenberg LE & Ley TJ, 2004.  The Endangered Physician-Scientist:  Opportunities for Revitalization Emerge. NAS.  View Article

Neilson, EG. 2003.  The role of medical school admissions committees in the decline of physician-scientists.  JCI 111:765-767.  View Article

Andrews, NC. 2002. The other physician-scientist problem:  Where have all the young girls gone? Nature Med 8:439-441.   View Article

Ley TJ, Rosenberg LE. 2002.  Removing career obstacles for young physician-scientists — loan-repayment programs.  NEJM 346:368-72.   View Article

Varki, A &  Rosenberg, LE. 2002.  Emerging opportunities and career paths for the young physician-scientist.   Nature Med 8:437-439.   View Article

Zemlo TR, Garrison, HH, Partridge NC, Ley TJ. 2000.  The physician-scientist:  career issues and challenges at the year 2000.   View Article

Rosenberg LE. 1999.  The physician-scientist:  an essential — and fragile — link in the medical research chain.   JCI 103:1621-6.   View Article

Varki, A. 1999.  The Nerflex Commission Report, April 25th. 2049 (based on the 1999 ASCI Presidential Address).  JCI (Suppl) v 104:S1-S10.

Goldstein, JL & Brown, MS. 1997.  The clinical investigator:  bewitched, bothered, and bewildered — but still beloved.  JCI 12:2803-2812.   View Article

Goldstein, JL. 1986.  On the origin and prevention of PAIDS (Paralyzed Academic Investigator's Disease Syndrome).  JCI 78:848-853.   View Article

Gill, GN. 1984.  The end of the physician-scientist?  Am Scholar: 53:353-368.

Wyngaarden, JB. 1979.  The clinical investigator as an endangered species.  NEJM 23:1254-1259.