BMJ  2004;329:751-752 (2 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7469.751

Editorial

Who cares about academic medicine?

This theme issue provides some answers

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

The reaction to the campaign launched by the BMJ and its partners several months ago^{1 2} suggests that academic medicine needs resuscitation.^{3 4} But is it worth saving?

The academic medicine campaign aims to develop a vision and set of recommendations for reforming academic medicine in the 21st century. Driven by an international working party, it gives high priority to incorporating the perspectives of the chief customers of academic medicine—patients, policy makers, and practitioners—through a series of stakeholder and regional consultations. The campaign also supplies an opportunity to question the global relevance, responsibilities, and scope of academic medicine: Who is it for? Why does it matter? How best to invest in its future? Articles in this theme issue (including two from the working party (pp 787, 789)) discuss these questions and identify the challenges facing the campaign.^{5 6}

The first challenge is the impression of "been there, done that." The message . . . [Full text of this article]

BMJ, London WC1H 9JR (jclark@bmj.com)

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

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• Patsopoulos, N. A, Ioannidis, J. P A, Analatos, A. A (2006). Origin and funding of the most frequently cited papers in medicine: database analysis. BMJ 332: 1061-1064 [Abstract] [Full text]  
• Clark, J., for the International Campaign to Revitalise Acade, (2005). Five futures for academic medicine: the ICRAM scenarios. BMJ 331: 101-104 [Full text]  
• Druss, B. G, Marcus, S. C (2005). Academic medicine: who is it for?: Funding gap between clinical and basic science publications is growing. BMJ 330: 360-361 [Full text]  
• House, W., Peters, D. (2005). Academic medicine: who is it for?: Five rescue remedies for academic medicine. BMJ 330: 361-361 [Full text]  
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• Fraser, H. S (2005). Academic medicine: who is it for?: Academic physicians are affected by specific failures of postgraduate training. BMJ 330: 363-363 [Full text]  

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