Being a physician

[sunshine02]

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While I know tons of MDs do research and see patients, how feasible is it to do that and also participate in healthcare policy? Are there policy committees physicians can join? Or is that not common at all?

 

[gyngyn]

While I know tons of MDs do research and see patients, how feasible is it to do that and also participate in healthcare policy? Are there policy committees physicians can join? Or is that not common at all?

All day long. In just about every capacity: international, federal, state, county, local and private.

 

[sunshine02]

All day long. In just about every capacity: international, federal, state, county, local and private.

So you're saying that it's very common for physicians to do research, see patients, and participate in healthcare policy processes?

 

[gyngyn]

So you're saying that it's very common for physicians to do research, see patients, and participate in healthcare policy processes?

In academic medicine it is. Policy people tend toward health disparities research rather than bench.
There is opportunity for interested physicians to participate in all three. In reality though, it tends to break down into two out of three, even in academics.

 

[sunshine02]

In academic medicine it is. Though policy people tend toward health disparities research rather than bench.
The opportunity is there for interested physicians to participate in all three. In fact it tends to break down into two out of three, even in academics.

Ah thanks! A question about academic medicine--if you do health disparities research is that still considered academic medicine or is academic medicine mostly bench research?

 

[gyngyn]

Ah thanks! A question about academic medicine--if you do health disparities research is that still considered academic medicine or is academic medicine mostly bench research?

Population research is a respected component of academic medicine.