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First Online: 2 January 2025

Competing interests

: A.M. is chair of the German Research Foundation-funded clinician-scientist program PRACTIS; a member of the working group clinician scientists of the German Medical Faculty Association; co-chair of the Else Kröner Fresenius Foundation- and Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts-funded clinician-scientist program CORE100Pilot; a committee member and mentor of several structured Hannover Medical School programs that support academic careers in medicine; a member of the advisory board of (advanced) clinician-scientist programs at the universities of Jena, Freiburg, Greifswald, Germany and of the University of Zurich, Switzerland; and chair of the mentoring program of the International Pediatric Transplantation Association for clinician scientists. C.G. and J.E. are fellows of PRACTIS; founding members of the German clinician-scientist network; and main organizers of the national interdisciplinary symposium for and from clinician scientists 2023. T.S. is scientific coordinator of the Dean’s Office for Academic Career Development at Hannover Medical School; and scientific coordinator of the programs JuniorPRACTIS, PRACTIS, CORE100Pilot and ALLEGRO at Hannover Medical School. E.D. is a former participant in the MD–PhD program and fellow (clinician scientist) at Ghent University. B.B.S. is chair of the 'Advanced Clinician Scientist' program of the University of Medicine Zurich; and founder of the clinician-scientist program ‘Filling the Gap’ in the faculty of medicine at the University of Medicine Zurich, which focuses on promoting talented female clinician scientists. J.V.W. is a mentor of MD–PhD candidates and clinician scientists at Ghent University. K.A. is dean of research and a mentor for clinician scientists. B.P. is founding member of the Eureka Institute for translational medicine and a Mentor of clinician scientists. E.C. is the director of the Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi I Sunyer of Barcelona (IDIBAPS); coordinator and chair of the selection committee of the Biomedicine International Training Research for Excellent Clinician-Scientists program, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and La Caixa Foundation; chair of the IDIBAPS 50/50 and 80/20 programs for clinician scientists; and co-coordinator of the PhD4MD program for clinician scientists in Barcelona. M.B. is the IDIBAPS director of strategy; previous coordinator, now partner, in the EMERALD research program for clinician scientists funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program; and co-coordinator of the PhD4MD program for clinician scientists in Barcelona.