Pursuing Research Careers in Pediatrics: Hope Springs Eternal

In the last decade or more, we have heard and told the sobering tales of single digit pay lines at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and dwindling support for research at our institutions. Given these harsh realities, it has seemed somewhat disingenuous to encourage trainees and junior faculty to pursue careers as physician scientists. As a result, the pipeline of physician-scientists has been shrinking.1 Nevertheless, several events and new realities are causing us to adopt a much more optimistic outlook.

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