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Table 2 Informants’ storylines regarding the PhD-degree and the positioning of MD-PhDs in the clinic

From: Science in the clinic: a qualitative study of the positioning of MD-PhDs in the everyday clinical setting

MD-PhDs

The PhD-degree is academic capital

The PhD-degree is a way to improve evidence-based clinical practice

The PhD-degree entails a duty to do research

Colleagues (physicians without a PhD-degree)

MD-PhDs are resource persons

MD-PhD hold an unjustly favored position

Leaders

MD-PhDs are resource persons

The PhD-degree entails a duty to do research

MD-PhD hold an unjustly favored position