title: Collaboration based on the clinical model can help grow the physician-scientist.
abstract: Surgeon scientists are a vanishing group, a reason for which may be an initially frustrating experience in the laboratory. This essay proposes a specific plan to improve the first time researcher's bench research experience.
authors.forename: Peter K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Henke
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States