The Road to Becoming a Biomedical Physician Scientist in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
 
What is a Physician Scientist in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine?
Why Choose Academic Pathology and Laboratory Medicine?
Is the Physician Scientist Career for Me?

Choosing a Training Path:
PhD followed by MD
MD/PhD
Physician Scientist Training
    Programs
Post Residency Training

Choosing a Training Program
Choosing a Supervisor
Searching for Your First Job
Launching your Physician Scientist Career
Tenure, Promotions and the First Ten Years
The Institutional Challenge to Train and Maintain Physician Scientists
Links and Resources
About the Author
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Launching Your Physician Scientist Career:
Once you arrive in your new position, be prepared for some frustration. By being well informed however, you can successfully navigate through the pitfalls of setting up a new office, research laboratory, and clinical practice. A few months free of clinical duties and teaching is very useful in allowing you to set up your laboratory. Be very familiar with regulations - department, university, government, and funding agencies. Spending time reading guidelines is not what you want to do, however it will save you much grief and will speed up your set up. Be familiar with the regulatory guidelines and when in doubt seek information. Ask for advice. Identify administrators and faculty who can be most helpful to you during your start up period. Those faculty who have just set up their laboratory are very useful advisors. We can all learn from someone else's experiences. Good luck!