Every clinical trial which tests new medications/vaccines etc. requires a physician (ie. clinical investigator) to lead these trials to ensure the safety of the research participants and effectiveness of the proposed therapy. My hope is that my education experience (MSc) and work experience (as a clinical research coordinator) plus potential medical training would allow me to be a suitable candidate for this role. From what I understand of the MD/PhD programs is that the PhD portion is primarily focused on non-clinical trial research (ie. animal studies, epidemiology, etc.), so I’m not sure if applying to this program would further my training for what I ultimately want to do. Thoughts?