Global Needs and Barriers for Medical Research Education: Initiatives to Solve the Physician-Scientist Shortage

Affiliations

• ¹ Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Varna, 9000 Varna, Bulgaria, Student Editor, IJMS.
• ² School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Student Editor, IJMS.
• ³ Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Uyo, Nigeria, Student Editor, IJMS.
• ⁴ Faculty of Medicine, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 050474 Bucharest, Romania & Department of Hematology, Center of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Fundeni Clinical Institute, 022328 Bucharest, Romania. Scientific Editor, IJMS.
• ⁵ Humanitas University, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy. Deputy Editor, IJMS.
• ⁶ School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, and Clinical Translational Science, Director for Global Health-Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. Editorial Board Member, IJMS.
• ⁷ Department of Ophtalmology; Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. Fundación Somos Ciencia al Servicio de la Comunidad, Fundación SCISCO/Science to Serve the Community Foundation, SCISCO Foundation, Cali Colombia. Grupo de investigación en Visión y Salud Ocular, VISOC, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. Editor in Chief, IJMS.