The introduction of Combined Clinical Medicine and Scientific Research Degrees in the Postgraduate Medical Education. A perspective.

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Neurology and psychological medicine department, Faculty of medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

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Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, a more idealistic paradigm for medical school missions has emerged, wherein research assumes the pivotal role in safeguarding and supporting all other objectives. Many medical schools across the world (especially in North America) have implemented undergraduate or postgraduate programs that integrate clinical medicine and scientific research in an effort to better recruit appropriately prepared personnel (i.e. Physician-scientists).While some studies indicates limitations in undergraduate combined training programs for physician-scientist development, other studies suggest that postgraduate dual training models may offer more effective outcomes. The author of this article outlines a proposal for dual degrees as national programs for developing physician scientists. The proposed programs are dual clinical and scientific master's degrees. The Egyptian medical school graduates have the option to apply for any of these proposed programs after completing their bachelor's degree (MBBch degree). The programs aim at gradual development of the workforce of physician- scientists based on the available infrastructure (whether clinical or laboratory) and therefore will be available to a limited number of medical school graduates.

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