Five futures for academic medicine: "Speed networking" may be one way forward

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7518.695-b

BMJ 2005;331:695 (24 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7518.695-b

Letter

Five futures for academic medicine

"Speed networking" may be one way forward

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EDITOR—One way for universities to revitalise academicmedicine might be to look outward.¹ Research takes money, andcompetition for funding is fierce. The chances of success areimproved by demonstrating an expertise in both subject areaand appropriate methods. Collaboration can be one way to achievethis, but how do you know with whom to collaborate? It's notjust about the interests or the skills, of course: if successfulyou have to work with these people.

A recent approach we used was a modified form of "speed dating"to improve our collaborative outlook. The Academic Unit of PrimaryHealth Care and the School for Policy Studies are active inresearch at the University of Bristol, but in different faculties.We were aware of some overlap in subject areas and methodologicalexpertise, yet to date we have had little experience of workingtogether. We devised "speed networking" as an . . . [Full text of this article]

Matthew J Ridd, MRC clinical research training fellow

m.ridd@bristol.ac.uk
Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol, Bristol BS6 6JL

Alison R G Shaw, lecturer in primary health care

Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol, Bristol BS6 6JL

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