Laboratory medicine offers attractive opportunities for individuals who have MD and
PhD degrees and advanced training in medicine and the underlying basic biomedical
sciences, and these individuals have much to contribute to the field. The modern era
of basic biomedical sciences has produced a wealth of genomic, postgenomic, and proteomic
knowledge. As a bridge discipline, a major challenge and opportunity for laboratory
medicine is to bring these advances to the diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic
care of patients. The authors believe that, for many reasons, the field of laboratory
medicine represents an excellent, although underrecognized, career choice for graduates
of MD/PhD programs.
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