Paving the physician-scientist career path: from grassroots gathering to national forum
The Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) first convened a workshop in 2015 that brought a small group of internal medicine program directors together who recognized the growing success of early-phase physician-scientist training programs but the unclear path afterward for these trainees. The meeting subsequently evolved into what is now the annual American Society for Clinical Investigation/AAIM/Burroughs Wellcome Fund (ASCI/AAIM/BWF) Physician-Scientist Pathways Workshop, which continues to bring stakeholders together to discuss the obstacles to success that physician-scientists face at all stages of their careers. This perspective presents the history and goals of the workshop, with an emphasis on the most recent meeting in 2024, and looks ahead to the work that still needs to be done to ensure a robust physician-scientist workforce.
Authors
- Patrick J Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5611-8062)
- Don C. Rockey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3751-2961)
- Tiffany C. Scharschmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5517-089X)
- Emily J. Gallagher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7920-8474)
- Christopher S. Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1541-579X)
- Kyu Y. Rhee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4582-2895)
- Olujimi A. Ajijola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6197-7593)
- David P. Cook (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7639-6724)
- Jatin M. Vyas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9985-9565)
- Charles W. Emala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0248-4662)
Institutions
- University of Iowa (US)
- Medical University of South Carolina (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- UCLA Health (US)
- VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (US)
- Office of Infectious Diseases (US)
- University of Iowa Health Care (US)
- Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JCI Insight
- Published
- 2025-04-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.192689
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.39