Physiologists as medical scientists: An early warning from the German academic system.

IF 2.2 Q3 PHYSIOLOGY
Katrin Streckfuss-Bömeke, Nicolle Kränkel, Christoph Maack, Renate B Schnabel, Laura C Zelarayán, Norbert Frey, Peter Jezzard, Martina Krüger, Nico Lachmann, Susanne Lutz, Claudia Noack, Eric Schoger, Katrin Schröder, Laura C Sommerfeld, Sabine Steffens, Holger Winkels, Christina Würtz, Tanja Zeller, Eva A Rog-Zielinska, Peter Kohl
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Abstract

"Medical scientists" are postgraduate investigators who are engaged in biomedical research, and either hold a biomedical PhD or are qualified in medicine but do not participate in patient care. Medical scientists constitute ~40% of staff at medical faculties and >90% at nonuniversity medical research institutions in Germany. However, medical scientists in Germany face limited long-term career prospects and a lack of dedicated training and support programmes. They also face time limits on their career progression arising from national academic employment legislation, and imminent reforms by the German government are likely to make this worse. Nevertheless, recent developments in the educational landscape including the introduction of increasingly focused MSc, pre-PhD, and doctoral programmes to train medically aware basic scientists, as well as improved general recognition of the roles and relevance of medical scientists in health research, are encouraging. Physiologists have taken essential steps to improve the recognition of medical scientists in Germany by introducing a "specialist physiologist" qualification; this initiative could be applied to support medical scientists in other fields and countries. In this review, we describe the particular challenges facing medical scientists in Germany and make recommendations that may apply to other academic systems.

作为医学家的生理学家:来自德国学术系统的预警。
"医学科学家 "是指从事生物医学研究的研究生研究人员,他们或者拥有生物医学博士学位,或者拥有医学资格但不参与病人护理。在德国,医学科学家约占医学院工作人员的 40%,占非大学医学研究机构工作人员的 90%以上。然而,德国的医学科学家长期职业前景有限,缺乏专门的培训和支持计划。他们还面临着国家学术就业立法对其职业发展的时间限制,而德国政府即将进行的改革很可能会使这一情况变得更糟。尽管如此,最近在教育领域取得的进展还是令人鼓舞的,其中包括引入了重点日益突出的理学硕士、博士预科和博士课程,以培养具有医学意识的基础科学家,以及提高了人们对医学科学家在健康研究中的作用和相关性的普遍认识。在德国,生理学家已采取重要措施,通过引入 "专科生理学家 "资格来提高对医学科学家的认可;这一举措可用于支持其他领域和国家的医学科学家。在本综述中,我们阐述了德国医学科学家面临的特殊挑战,并提出了可能适用于其他学术体系的建议。
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Physiological Reports
Physiological Reports PHYSIOLOGY-
CiteScore
4.20
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4.00%
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374
审稿时长
9 weeks
期刊介绍: Physiological Reports is an online only, open access journal that will publish peer reviewed research across all areas of basic, translational, and clinical physiology and allied disciplines. Physiological Reports is a collaboration between The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society, and is therefore in a unique position to serve the international physiology community through quick time to publication while upholding a quality standard of sound research that constitutes a useful contribution to the field.
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