ICRAM (the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine): agenda setting

doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7469.787

BMJ 2004;329:787-789 (2 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7469.787

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ICRAM (the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine): agenda setting

International Working Party to Promote and Revitalise Academic Medicine

Correspondence to: D Wilkinson, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia david.wilkinson@uq.edu.au

Following the launch by the BMJ and others of the campaign topromote academic medicine, a working party of 20 medical academicsfrom all over the world was convened to develop a plan of action

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Introduction

Editorials published in several of the world's leading journalsin the past few months have heralded the launch of a globalcampaign to promote and revitalise academic medicine.¹ The campaignis a response to a widely held view that academic medicine isin crisis.²

In June 2004 the BMJ Publishing Group and others (www.bmj.com/academicmedicine)convened a working party of medical academics to discuss thechallenges facing academic medicine. This paper summarises theresults of the meeting, and outlines how the working party willconduct its business in the next 12 months.

What are the roles of academic medicine?

Academic medicine is traditionally conceived of having threeroles: teaching, research, and service. These roles are changing:academic medicine still has the primary responsibility for trainingdoctors; research remains a core role but more is being donein institutes of biotechnology and biomedicine; and, most clinicalservice, even in academic centres, is now provided by non-academicdoctors.

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How well is academic medicine carrying out its roles?

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What needs to be done to permit academic medicine to fulfil its roles?

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