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The physician-scientist workforce doing kidney research in the United States is increasingly made up of women and international medical graduates.
However, this workforce is older, declining in relative number, and is less overwhelmingly focused on basic rather than clinical science.
Washington, DC (July 14, 2021) U.S. physician-scientists make enormous contributions to biomedical research. New research published in CJASN demonstrates increasing representation of women and international graduates within the physician-scientist workforce doing kidney research; however, this workforce is declining in relative number, is getting older, and is less overwhelmingly focused on basic science research.
The research relied on public data obtained from the internet. A team led by Susan M. Wall, MD (Emory University School of Medicine) mined records from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore demographic changes of early career and established, physician and non-phy
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Patients with kidney failure did not report better experience with care from more frequent face-to-face visits with kidney specialists at dialysis facilities.
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