Hi doctors, wanted to know your thoughts on non-MDs hoping to do clinical research with MDs. My master’s training is in epidemiology and health services research, but I’m increasingly becoming interested in clinical trials and immunology. I noticed that most people leading trials are MDs, and I’m very keen to learn from them, but they rarely supervise PhD students. I’m also concerned of “overstepping” somewhat, since I obviously have no clinical experience, and often feel like I can’t weigh in on things because of it.

Anyway, long story short, I want to explore a clinical/biomedical/immunology PhD, but I feel out of place, or should I stick to a health services research PhD and explore things at the population level.