Table 3:

Potential benefits of enhanced convergence medicine opportunities

Stakeholder	Benefit	Examples
Medical doctors	Professional development	Greater job satisfaction due to creativity and novel learning; new challenges; diversified skill-set. Greater appreciation and understanding for clinical, research and commercialization procedures.
Non-medical researchers and innovators	Professional development	Greater job satisfaction due to creativity and novel learning; enhanced access to clinical care processes and procedures; greater appreciation for the clinical care environment; greater exposure to commercialization processes and opportunities.
	Enhanced clinical practice	Diversified and up-skilled workforce; greater workforce satisfaction; improved clinical innovations and hence patient outcomes.
Employing health service	Mutually beneficial partnerships	Partnering with other public and private organizations; potential for economic development from commercial successes.
	Recruitment and retention	Enhanced workforce retention
Research institutions	Improved novelty of research	Increases in transdisciplinary research work. Increased opportunities for commercialization.
Private enterprises	Improved access to translational research innovations	Increased engagement of clinicians and researchers in commercialization pursuits. Increased economic opportunities.
Community	Improved standards of health care	Greater innovation from researchers, clinicians and private enterprises.