Medical education
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To investigate junior doctors' views about careers in academic medicine. ⋯ The job content of academic posts should be kept under regular review to ensure that clinical service pressures do not inappropriately erode research time while also ensuring that postholders have adequate clinical training. Training programmes need flexibility to accommodate the needs of clinical academics in their progress through higher specialist training.
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To assess whether organizers of continuing medical education for general practitioners used principles of adult learning when designing their meetings. ⋯ Given concern about the quality of educational meetings as assessed by their educational impact, formal approval is not an indicator of quality. Postgraduate bodies should use explicit criteria both in the development and approval of continuing educational meetings.