Academic medicine: who is it for?

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Five rescue remedies for academic medicine

William House, general practitioner (william.house@gp-L81045.nhs.uk),
David Peters, trustee, British Holistic Medical Association

St Augustine's Practice, Keynsham, Bristol BS31 2BN
School of Integrated Health, Euston Building, University of Westminster, London W1W 6UW

EDITOR—The big problem for academic medicine is irrelevance. Sewankambo and others rightly call for relevant research—for irrelevance creeps in at every stage of research and teaching, from identifying health problems, conceptualising them, designing ethical research projects, securing funding, and interpreting findings.1 2

When the outcome filters back to clinicians and would-be clinicians it is stamped …