A 'Translational Clinician Scientist
Entrepreneur (TCSE)' program can cater to a large population of graduates
who are unable to join PhD or MD programs in India and globally due to standard
entrance bottle-necks and yet they could benefit from an entrepreneurial career
path.
At the very beginning of the 'Translational Clinician Scientist
Entrepreneur' TCSE program, students can be coached through a clinical rotation
to identify requirements (problems that require doable solutions) in specific
patient-populations (that can include rheumatology which is the area of
interest for our principal investigator).
Through a case study approach, these
students could make attempts to find which of these patient-problems can be
offered optimal innovative solutions. This course may not have a fixed time
bound curriculum and the TCSE can choose to take the necessary amount of time
required to achieve his/her entrepreneurial aspirations that would depend on a)
his/her identification of the problem for which s/he would like to develop a
solution ( this would be during the clinical rotation phase in an Institute
providing the bedside clinical platform and clinical academic guide) b)
Developing the solution (the bench phase in an institute providing the
bench/laboratory and academic guide) and c) marketing the solution to the
identified patient population( a large fraction of who could be tapped from the
patient population in the institute where the TCSE learned to identify the
patient problem).
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