title: [Doctoral research by physicians: it goes without saying!].
abstract: It is important that junior doctors in training conduct research for a number of years, culminating in a PhD. This is crucial to their development as critical and versatile doctors, which is exactly what is required now, in 2014. Hospitals are keen to have doctors with a broad education, and conducting scientific research is an enrichment for the investigators themselves. It is not necessarily undesirable that they do this principally to increase their chances of trainee posts; even those who have almost completed a PhD can be rejected for trainee positions if they do not seem to be competent.
authors.affiliation: Academisch Medisch Centrum, afd. Inwendige Geneeskunde, Amsterdam.
authors.forename: Joost B L
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Hoekstra
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000592:standards*