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I find it's great that the BMJ would promote this campaign. At the same
time, I think it'd be better to speak about and to work for an academic
health care and academic health services.
This is because of the importance for a surviving connection between
academic activity and clinical work, and because many NHS doctors have
significant teaching and research and managemnt responsibilities, without
being exactly academics.
Mainly in General Practice discipline, we have GPs with really
increasing service delivery commitments, but, at the same time, we are
seeing a great development in GP teaching and research and new Countries
are opening or are at least thinking to open finally the acamedic door to
General Practice.
Differently fron the New Contract in UK, in Italy the contracts are
not looking at flexiblity on work and nothing is devoted to career
development and protected time for academic teaching, research and
management.
At WONCA European Congress in Amsterdam, on 2nd June 2004, I prepared
and managed a symposium, with well known expertises in the field ( Amanda
Howe, Christos Lionis, Justin Allen, Igor Svab ) organised to
1) discuss about the practical ways to build a core of teaching, to
create academic structures in relation with GPs, University, Regional
Councils, Medical Councils, to prepare a paper of local agreement; to
choose teachers and tutors, creating a spiral level of quality so to get
trust from the Academic Body.
2) Discuss about the practical ways to create a flexible career
development, with alternative options as protected time for teaching and
academic work, or part-time for particular needs, peer-driven continuing
education, training and qualification.
So, the squeezing between some development in academy and the duty to
do exactly the same clinical work is persisting, cutting the academic
efforts and this is another point to be stressed by the BMJ campaign
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests:
No competing interests
07 June 2004
Francesco Carelli
EURACT Council ,National Representative - RCGP 43017 - GMC 4256757 - EGPRN - Italian College of GP
Academy and flexibility to be linked for GPs
I find it's great that the BMJ would promote this campaign. At the same
time, I think it'd be better to speak about and to work for an academic
health care and academic health services.
This is because of the importance for a surviving connection between
academic activity and clinical work, and because many NHS doctors have
significant teaching and research and managemnt responsibilities, without
being exactly academics.
Mainly in General Practice discipline, we have GPs with really
increasing service delivery commitments, but, at the same time, we are
seeing a great development in GP teaching and research and new Countries
are opening or are at least thinking to open finally the acamedic door to
General Practice.
Differently fron the New Contract in UK, in Italy the contracts are
not looking at flexiblity on work and nothing is devoted to career
development and protected time for academic teaching, research and
management.
At WONCA European Congress in Amsterdam, on 2nd June 2004, I prepared
and managed a symposium, with well known expertises in the field ( Amanda
Howe, Christos Lionis, Justin Allen, Igor Svab ) organised to
1) discuss about the practical ways to build a core of teaching, to
create academic structures in relation with GPs, University, Regional
Councils, Medical Councils, to prepare a paper of local agreement; to
choose teachers and tutors, creating a spiral level of quality so to get
trust from the Academic Body.
2) Discuss about the practical ways to create a flexible career
development, with alternative options as protected time for teaching and
academic work, or part-time for particular needs, peer-driven continuing
education, training and qualification.
So, the squeezing between some development in academy and the duty to
do exactly the same clinical work is persisting, cutting the academic
efforts and this is another point to be stressed by the BMJ campaign
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests: No competing interests