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Medicine, science and family: find the right mix to make a good cocktail

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Counselling hospital work with research projects is really challenging in today's working environment and embarking on an academic career can profoundly impacts on the personal and family life. As a… Click to show full abstract

Counselling hospital work with research projects is really challenging in today's working environment and embarking on an academic career can profoundly impacts on the personal and family life. As a medical doctor, I achieved a PhD in Science while keeping a clinical activity, which led me to develop multidisciplinary collaboration and research projects. Finding the right balance between leading such projects and having a personal and family life can be tricky and is a daily challenge. Based on my experience, I wish to discuss the main barriers and challenges that doctor scientists have to face and to provide a few tips on how I handled hospital work, research projects and family life.

Keywords: medicine; medicine science; research projects; family life; family

Journal Title: Acta Chirurgica Belgica
Year Published: 2019

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