BMJ  2005;331 (9 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7508.0-g

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Where are the leaders?

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Got the wrist band, got the "Make Poverty History" T shirt, and glad to have been in Edinburgh among what Colin Douglas calls "the marching innocents" (p 117). At the time of writing it's not clear what, if anything, will come out of the G8 summit, so naive optimism is still, it seems to me, a legitimate option.

The same won't do for academic medicine. Long taken for granted as medicine's indispensable research and teaching arm, academic medicine is now the focus of international concern, a sick patient with an uncertain prognosis. The diagnosis is becoming clear, thanks to the work of a global campaign to revitalise academic medicine launched by the BMJ and partners in 2003, which reports back this week (p 101). Academic medicine lacks vision and leadership. It is failing to engage with the real issues of health care and failing to attract . . . [Full text of this article]

Fiona Godlee, editor

(fgodlee@bmj.com)


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