AAHMS Life as a Clinician Scientist 2017: Session 1

Life as a Clinician-Scientist: The Best of Both Worlds was a one-day symposium for medical students, junior doctors and PhD students focusing on the intersection between clinical medicine and science. The day was aimed at encouraging and inspiring medical students and doctors to get involved in research and workshop the skills necessary to succeed in clinical research.

Whether you are considering doing research or are already involved in research and perhaps wondering how to translate your results or thesis into a publication, poster or platform, this video series will be relevant and applicable. The sessions include talks by academics from a range of specialities and each speaker gives a vignette of their own research in addition to their speaking topic. The afternoon featured skills workshops including “how to get your research published”, “how to give a great talk or poster”, “how to select and structure a research question” and a panel on the varied career of a clinician-scientist.

Watch this video of Session 1 (What is a Clinician-Scientist?) to...

Be Welcomed to Life as a Clinician-Scientist from Professor Ingrid Scheffer AO - Director of Paediatrics, Austin Health & Professor of Paediatric Neurology, University of Melbourne. Vice-President, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Pioneered our understanding of the genetics of epilepsy & led worldwide epilepsy re-classification.

Hear Why I Became a Clinician-Scientist from Professor Stephen Davis - Professor of Translational Neuroscience, University of Melbourne & Director of Neurosciences, Royal Melbourne Hospital. Recognised for his work leading clinical trials that investigate the use of neuroimaging in the selection of acute stroke treatments, he has recently been elected President of the World Stroke Association.

Learn What to do When it all Goes Wrong from Professor Christina Mitchell - Academic Vice-President and Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University. Trained as a physician scientist specialising in clinical haematology, currently researching the role of lipid phosphatases in development and human disease.