BMJ 2000;320:630-633 ( 4 March )

Education and debate

More in expectation than in hope: a new attitude to training in clinical academic medicine

Editorial by Goldbeck-Wood Education and debate pp   633 , 636

John Savill, professor. 

Internal Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh EH3 9YW

J.Savill@ed.ac.uk

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There has never been a brighter prospect for medical research to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and management of disease. Furthermore, advances in information technology have provided unprecedented opportunities to bring stimulating and innovative teaching to medical education. However, despite the excitement of combining research and teaching with clinical practice, academic medicine is not widely viewed as an attractive career. Indeed, recruitment into clinical academic medicine has been so patchy that it is often impossible for medical schools to find suitable candidates to fill senior positions. More worrying still is a growing perception among our brightest young doctors that forging a career in academic medicine is simply not worth the enormous effort that seems to be required. Hard data on developing careers in academic medicine are frustratingly sparse, but we are all familiar with the power of adverse perception. Indeed, morale is so low in some disciplines that enthusiastic role models . . . [Full text of this article]

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