Limited Opportunities for Students

As this division is still largly the case, few opportunities currently exist for students to study the two fields in an integrated program. Medical students, for example, who prefer not to practice directly as doctors, but rather wish to conduct medical research with a molecular orientation, have little access to academic programs structured specifically for this purpose. Likewise, students in the sciences with an interest in questions related to biomedicine, rarely have a chance to become familiar with the medical perspectives applied in posing such questions. Consequently, the nascent field of molecular medicine lacks an up and coming generation of researchers qualified to represent both the medical and biological aspects of the field.