Clinical Research Question

[calimed214]

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My exposure to clinical research has mainly involved working with pharmacists collecting drug usage data -- But I'm wondering how clinical research is incorporated into one's daily practice as an MD? Can an MD be a full-time clinician, treating patients, while simultaneously devote his/her time to research as well? Pardon my ignorance on the topic. 🙂 Any insight would be appreciated.

 

[drizzt3117]

My exposure to clinical research has mainly involved working with pharmacists collecting drug usage data -- But I'm wondering how clinical research is incorporated into one's daily practice as an MD? Can an MD be a full-time clinician, treating patients, while simultaneously devote his/her time to research as well? Pardon my ignorance on the topic. 🙂 Any insight would be appreciated.

You can definitely do research and see patients also. I guess the question is whether you can do one "full-time" and that would really depend on what kind of research you're doing. Certainly you'd be able to do clinical research like chart reviews and other retrospective studies while being a full-time clinician, but certain types of clinical research involves a larger time commitment. Certainly there are a lot of clinical and maybe some basic science PIs that see patients a good amount if not completely full-time though.

 

[Morsetlis]

There's this radiation oncologist at UCSD/Moores Cancer Center that published 40 papers within the last 16 years...

 

[startswithb]

I've worked with a MD on a clinical research project for over a year. He is a rheumatologist, retired from seeing patients, and now devotes all his time to clinical research and teaching. He did one large survey of a certain population during his practice, and now is doing another, larger one. I think that sounds like a nice transition for retirement, and, once you've already developed a 20-30 year patient population, you have a lot to pull from for future studies.

Example, this MD noticed during his clinical years several patients with a certain condition having other similar characteristics. Thus, developing a hypothesis.