Newsletter Fall 2019: Clinician Investigator Trainee Association of Canada (CITAC)

A message from Elina Cook (President): Demystifying and promoting the MD-PhD/MSc world—our progress Clinician Investigator Trainee Association of Canada (CITAC) seeks to promote, support and advocate for trainees whose goal is to become physician/ clinician/surgeon investigators. These include trainees of MD-PhD/MSc programs and Clinician Investigator Programs (CIP), who are preparing themselves to succeed in the overlapping world of medicine and research. Thanks to the wealth of talent, skill and motivation of the CITAC leadership this year, we are delivering new opportunities to these trainees in a number of ways: 1) developing international partnerships and initiatives; 2) revitalizing the Annual General Meeting (AGM); 3) advocating for clinician/physician/surgeon-scientist trainee support among influencers and policy makers; and 4) collecting data on the academic “health” of our training programs and trainees across Canada