During my stay at UAB and prior to that at my alma mater (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Perú), I have been involved in the training of clinical and research fellows. In fact, after my US training (1968-1972), I started the first training program in Rheumatology and the first Rheumatology Unit in Perú. Whether in Perú or in the US, I have attended their clinics, have rounded with them, and foremost I have been stimulating them to always keep an open and inquisitive mind in dealing with their day-to-day activities being those in the clinic or in the research setting. I can say that over 60% of the fellows graduating from UAB between 1981 and the early 2000's, when I became more involved in the training of clinical research fellows (vide infra), have had the opportunity to publish their clinical experience under my mentorship and with my unconditional support. Of course, not all of them have become academicians or researchers in their own right, but I have been quick to point out to all of them that the proper appreciation of what research entails or the amount of work that goes into a published paper, can only come from personally going through the same experience.