On the bright side of PhD life: the perspectives of physiotherapist clinician–scientists

Exposure to a variety of laboratory and community settings, novel equipment and measurement tools afforded an understanding of the various instruments not available in clinic and the relevance of different study designs and methods informing clinical practice. Contributions to the physiotherapy prof...

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Published in:British journal of sports medicine 2021-06, Vol.55 (12), p.654-655
Main Authors: Emery, Carolyn A, Napier, Christopher
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Career development planning
Clinical medicine
Collaboration
Editorial
education
Funding
knowledge transfer
Medical research
Medicine
Sports medicine
sports physiotherapy
university
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Summary:Exposure to a variety of laboratory and community settings, novel equipment and measurement tools afforded an understanding of the various instruments not available in clinic and the relevance of different study designs and methods informing clinical practice. Contributions to the physiotherapy profession Contributions to the physiotherapy profession include the ability to effect change in physiotherapy practice at the individual, profession, health systems and population health levels that would not have been possible as a clinician without research training. Early career mentorship and opportunities to actively take part in research are key to successful development of the next generation of clinician–scientists.6 The Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Programme and the National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Training Programme are examples of transdisciplinary training programmes for the next generation of clinician–scientists including strong mentorship components.7 8 Such programmes support the dwindling pipeline of clinician–scientists and future research will inform the impact of these programmes (eg, clinician–scientist research metrics, research impact, mentorship).7 8 We believe increasing research leadership capacity through the contributions of a greater number of clinician–scientists will raise the bar for evidence-informed practice in sports medicine with significant transdisciplinary collaboration that will optimise patient, health systems and population health outcomes.
ISSN:0306-3674
1473-0480
DOI:10.1136/bjsports-2021-104124