BMJ  2004;328:49 (3 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7430.49-a

Letter

Academic medicine: time for reinvention

Summary of responses

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EDITOR—Since we launched our international campaign to promote and revitalise academic medicine, over 60 rapid responses to the cluster of articles published on 1 November 2003^1-5 have been received. Many were sent from England, several from medical students and trainees, and a notable number came from outside the United Kingdom—reminding us that concern about the fate of academic medicine is very much a "universally relevant" issue. Nearly everyone agreed that academic medicine is suffering, and all offered opinions as to why.

Most criticised the lack of adequate government funding of universities and research centres, which was said to foster a dependency on industry. If academic medicine is not valued publicly, argued a general practitioner from Australia, the pursuit of knowledge and truth for its own sake will not be respected. Academic clinicians were said to be poorly remunerated compared with their non-academic peers unless they partner with industry. . . . [Full text of this article]

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