title: Clinical research: A personal perspective.
abstract: Research ought to be inculcated as an attitude during the formative years of every health-care professional. The core elements of research are curiosity, observation, reasoning, and experimentation. These suggestions are supported with suitable examples. Medical advisers in the pharmaceutical industry are in a unique position to act as facilitators of such a process. The tools they can use are also suggested.
authors.affiliation: Scientific Advisory Committee, Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Scientific Advisory Committee, KEM Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Arun S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Nanivadekar
keywords: Clinical research core; clinical research facilitators; clinical research tools