Comments on: clinical departments of the world: you can’t have it both ways http://www.mudphudder.com/2009/01/cant-have-it-both-ways/ an academic medicine weblog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:28:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: EthidiumBromide http://www.mudphudder.com/2009/01/cant-have-it-both-ways/comment-page-1/#comment-220 EthidiumBromide Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:01:53 +0000 http://www.mudphudder.com/?p=1600#comment-220 Perhaps it is because my Ph.D. is through the Department of Oncology (rather than biochemistry or chemistry), but a very significant (roughly half?) of the PIs are actually MDs. Both the PIs of my laboratory are MDs... one does research full time, and my advisor splits his time between clinic (one day/week, and 4 weeks of attending/year) and the rest of the time in the lab. Over the four years that I've been in the lab, he has not seemed to increase his time in the clinic... while patients often find him because of his research work and travel to see him because of that, he remains firm that the majority of his time be spent in the lab. Perhaps it is because my Ph.D. is through the Department of Oncology (rather than biochemistry or chemistry), but a very significant (roughly half?) of the PIs are actually MDs. Both the PIs of my laboratory are MDs… one does research full time, and my advisor splits his time between clinic (one day/week, and 4 weeks of attending/year) and the rest of the time in the lab. Over the four years that I’ve been in the lab, he has not seemed to increase his time in the clinic… while patients often find him because of his research work and travel to see him because of that, he remains firm that the majority of his time be spent in the lab.

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