Campaign to revitalise academic medicine kicks off

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7440.597

BMJ 2004;328:597 (13 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7440.597

Editorial

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine kicks off

We need a deep and broad international debate to begin

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The BMJ and a range of partners, including other journals publishedby the BMJ Publishing Group, the Lancet, Canadian Medical AssociationJournal, Dutch Journal of Medicine, Medical Journal of Australia,Croatian Medical Journal, the Academy of Medical Sciences, andmany others have initiated a project to bring people togetherto debate whether the existing structure of academic medicineis still fundamentally sound and, if not, to propose alternativesto it.¹ I have taken on the challenge of coordinating this project,and I invite readers to join me in this enterprise.

To achieve the project's broad goals (box 1) we begin from theposition that "more of the same" is not enough. We need to befree to propose radical changes to the fundamental nature ofacademic medicine (is the balance between bench and appliedresearch all wrong?); its name (should it become "academic healthcare" or should we drop "academic"?); . . . [Full text of this article]

Peter Tugwell, professor

Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Institute of Population Health, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5 (ptugwell@uottawa.ca)

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