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From Bench to clinic and to the community, the quest to conquer tropical diseases and the scholarly role of an ScM.D diplomat.

Alphonsus Ekwerike, MD, PhD, ScM.D, PPCR Harvard, Science Medicine Research Institute,USA,American Academy Of Primary Care Research & Tropical Pharmedic Research Institute/ Center,USA.

INTRODUCTION: In recent times, scholarly evidence shows that research discipline needs solid trending trace, track s and trails of events, manifestation ,cushioning cautions, conclusive suggestions and inference of every  problematic study as to infer an evidence base solution, principle and practice of  that, as a scientific profession. New disciplines of research practitioners have evolved retraining MDs unto Ph.D  certificants  as academic medical practitioners  & Ph.D bench scientists unto  clinical medicine skills. New  program entrants  are directly trained unto  combined MD,PhD  degrees as to become Clinical Scientists, research physicians or physician scientist. These and more are the scholarly curriculum  & professional responsibility  of an ScM.D diplomat, having  an edge of starting a bench quest, translating it to clinical and community & solidly, trending basic to clinical evidence base step paradigm ,giving collaborators and peer reviewers enough trails of records, data and materials to work with.

PROBLEM: Scientific omissions ,time wasting & wide margin  of errors  occurring frequenting  in scientific research  encountered by bench scientists while translating to clinical or from  clinicians  while translating to the community or  from the community  translators  presenting a faulty demographic epidemiology to  bench or clinical researchers. Tropical diseases remained prime infestations because no scholarly  BCC evidence  base step paradigm  training curriculum has been advanced or introduced to third world endemic countries to breed ScM.D research field workers.

SOLUTION: This diaphragmatic cycle is a serious bottleneck in research discipline and as such, a postulation of scholarly discipline called Sciencemedicine profession is made to train a single individual from the basic sciences (Mathematics, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and statistics ) to basic medical sciences (Anatomy,Physiology,Biochemistry, microbiology,Forensic science & pathology,etc ), then to para studies / Clinical sciences ( Medicine,Surgery,Physiatry,Pharmacology,Pharmacognosy ,pathophysiology & public health)) and to research oriented  disciplines of  Nanomedicine, space medicine, regenerative medicine, neuroscience to basic and clinical research rotations &  residency cumulating to a five year general research practitioner status and a nine year study for a specialist status of a diplomat  (ScM.D) in Sciencemedicine profession.

CONCLUSION: Science Medicine diplomat (ScM.D ) education which is a direct nine years combined basic & clinical  research training  in one step paradigm scholarly curriculum that equals the combined MD/Ph.D degrees acquisition but differs with its broad bench to clinic and community defined evidence linked one step paradigm quest oriented responsibility of its practitioners that are dearly needed to conquer tropical diseases,etc.Third world students and practitioners would benefit immensely from this specialized education to combat diseases and poverty.