Five futures for academic medicine: the ICRAM scenarios

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7508.101

BMJ 2005;331:101-104 (9 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7508.101

Education and debate

Five futures for academic medicine: the ICRAM scenarios

Jocalyn Clark, associate editor¹, for the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine

¹ BMJ, London WC1H 9JR jclark@bmj.com

Although most people agree that academic medicine needs to reform,the nature of the changes is unclear. ICRAM hopes its five scenariosfor the future will aid the debate

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Introduction

In 2003, the BMJ and 40 other partners launched the InternationalCampaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine (ICRAM). Led by a coreworking party of medical academics representing 14 countries(box), the campaign aims to redefine the core values of andcontribute to the evidence base for academic medicine; developstrategy around reformed academic training; and stimulate apublic debate on the future. As part of this process ICRAM createda team to develop a vision for the future of academic medicine.This resulted in five future scenarios, which are summarisedhere. A fuller description is being published this week in thePublic Library of Science Medicine.¹ The full report of thescenario building workshop, with full details, references, andbackground, is also being published simultaneously by the MilbankMemorial Fund.²

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Academic medicine might be defined as the capacity of the healthcaresystem to think, study, research, discover, evaluate, teach,. . . [Full text of this article]

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