The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the immense importance of clinician-scientists. Central to translational medicine, they are expected to bridge the ‘valley of death’ — the gap between bench and bedside. But clinician-scientists have faced difficult career paths for decades. They must juggle demanding duties in patient care with being judged mostly on grant, publication and citation records. The result? A noticeable decline in the number of clinician-scientists (K. Noble et al. Nature Cancer 1, 139–141; 2020).

Nature 601, 318 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00095-6

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