Five futures for academic medicine

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7518.694

From trainee to consultant, BMJ Group offers doctors around the world tailored information, special events, learning resources and recruitment services at every step along their career path.

... by doctors, for doctors, for patients
We are open for entries!

Online learning

BMJ Learning

High-quality CME / CPD for doctors and other healthcare professionals. BMJ Learning features hundreds of accredited, peer-reviewed learning modules in text, video, and audio formats. Find out more

Courses and Qualifications

BMJ Masterclasses

BMJ Masterclasses, led by experts, help clinicians to use the latest evidence and recent guidelines in practice and meet their CPD/CME requirements. Find out more

Exam Preparation

The leading provider of online exam preparation, helping over 167,000 healthcare professionals to pass their exams. Find out more

onExamination

Search all BMJ comment articles:

From

Limit by

Access to the full text of this article requires a subscription or payment. Please log in or subscribe below.

Future of academic medicine looks bleak

E Malcolm Symonds, emeritus professor (Profems@aol.com),
Sir Peter Bell, emeritus professor,
Jangu Banatvala, emeritus professor

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Human Development and Midwifery, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH
Department of Surgery, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 5WW
Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, London SE1 8WA

EDITOR—Four factors are responsible for the failure of academic medicine. The first is the research assessment exercise, which, surprisingly, is not discussed in the ICRAM scenarios outlined by Clark for the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine.1 The second is the inhibition of clinical research by the draconian regulations often inflicted by ethics committees. The third is the formidable problems faced by people wishing to work with …