Open letter to the leader of academic medicine

doi:10.1136/bmj.39043.676898.94

BMJ 2007;334:191-193 (27 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.39043.676898.94

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Open letter to the leader of academic medicine

John P A Ioannidis, professor¹, Tahmeed Ahmed, scientist², Shally Awasthi, professor³, A Mark Clarfield, Sidonie Hecht professor of geriatrics⁴, Jocalyn Clark, director of knowledge translation⁵, Lalit Dandona, chair, health studies area⁶, Amanda Howe, professor of primary care⁷, Juan M Lozano, professor of clinical epidemiology and paediatrics⁸, Youping Li, director⁹, Hardi Madani, medical student¹⁰, Ana Marusic, professor¹¹, Idris Mohammed, professor¹², Gretchen P Purcell, assistant professor of surgery and biomedical informatics¹³, Margaret Rhoads, final year medical student¹⁴, Karen Sliwa-Hähnle, associate professor¹⁵, Sharon E Straus, associate professor¹⁶, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, scientist¹⁷, Peter Tugwell, director¹⁸, Robyn Ward, professor (conjoint)¹⁹, Michael S Wilkes, vice dean²⁰, Richard Smith, chief executive²¹

¹ Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina 45110, Greece, ² Clinical Sciences Division, ICDDR, B: Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh, ³ Department of Pediatrics, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India, ⁴ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel , ⁵ POWER Study Centre for Research in Inner City Health, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada , ⁶ Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad-500 082, India, ⁷ Institute of Health, University of East Anglia, Norwich , ⁸ School of Medicine, Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia, ⁹ Chinese Cochrane Centre, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, ¹⁰ Royal Free and University College London Medical Schools, London , ¹¹ Department of Anatomy, Zagreb University School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia, ¹² Department of Medicine, Federal Medical Centre, Gombe, Nigeria, ¹³ Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Nashville, USA, ¹⁴ Imperial College London, London , ¹⁵ Department of Cardiology, Baragwanath Hospital , University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ¹⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, ¹⁷ Health System Financing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, ¹⁸ Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, ¹⁹ Department of Medical Oncology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia, ²⁰ University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Davis, California, USA, ²¹ United Health Europe, London

Correspondence to: J P A Ioannidis jioannid@cc.uoi.gr

As their campaign comes to a close, ICRAM presents a challengeto academic medicine's invisible leaders

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We are not sure who you are. Unsubstantiatedrumours suggest that you may not exist at all. We wonder whereacademic medicine is getting its lead from. Is it some of themany serious scientists, clinicians, and educators? Is it peoplewith illnesses, those who wish to remain healthy, or societyat large? Is it political leaders of uncompromising principlesand vision? Is it selfless benefactors and visionary entrepreneurs?Or is it self interested compromisers carrying embellished titlesacquired through anything but merit? Maybe it's corporate industryescorting academic medicine to the dance tonight?

You might ask who we are. We are participantsin the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine,a group of mostly young academics from around the world whofeel that academic medicine needs reinvention (box). We havegathered evidence systematically, consulted and debated globally,and given thought to how the future might look. Here is what. . . [Full text of this article]

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