title: You'll be a clinician-scientist, my son.
abstract: Opinion-based commentary about the complex reality of being a clinician-scientist in today's modern biomedical environment. The essay uses the beautiful, but old, poem "If" from Rudyard Kipling to draw a parallel with the ambitions, dreams and limits of being a clinical-scientist today.
authors.affiliation: Group A Streptococcus Research Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. psmeeste@ulb.ac.be.|Centre for International Child Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. psmeeste@ulb.ac.be.|Department of Paediatrics, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Brussels, Belgium. psmeeste@ulb.ac.be.|Molecular Bacteriology Laboratory, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. psmeeste@ulb.ac.be.
authors.forename: Pierre R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Smeesters
mesh_terms: D008511:Medicine / Q000639:trends; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*