Whither pediatric physician-scientist training in the COVID-19 era

Echocardiography education in COVID-19 era

Stigmatization, Discrimination, Racism, Injustice, and Inequalities in the COVID-19 Era

Designing, implementing, and evaluating an introductory course on virtual learning in the Covid-19 pandemic era

Background & Objective: The sudden outbreak of Covid-19 affected the educational systems worldwide and highlighted the necessity of students' virtual education. Therefore, the present study aimed to compile, implement, and evaluate an introductory course on virtual learning for medical students. Materials & Methods: The present scholarly research was conducted in four stages: 1) needs assessme...

On Preventing the Extinction of the Physician-Scientist in Pediatric Pulmonology

While the founders of Pediatric Pulmonology recognized the necessity of research as a vital part of the developing sub specialty, the field has struggled to develop and maintain physician-scientists and investigators. The clinical growth in Pediatric Pulmonology has resulted in significant challenges in career development faced by physician-scientists who aim to establish or maintain independen...

Not the End of the Physician-Scientist

In 1984 Gordon N. Gill, professor of medicine at the University of California at San Diego, published an essay entitled “The End of the Physician-Scientist?’ He described how from the mid1960s to the early 1980s the biomedical research enterprise in the United States passed largely out of the realm of clinical investigators and into that of Ph.D. scientists working at the molecular level. He al...