Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London
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J R Coll Physicians Lond · Jul 1999
Training in academic medicine: a way forward for the new millennium. A discussion document from the Academic Medicine Committee of the Royal College of Physicians.
Three schemes are presented for discussion whereby physicians undergoing postdoctoral training can combine a period of research training with their clinical training and so enable those who wish to follow a career in academic medicine to do so, or alternatively to revert to a clinical career. The training arrangements for those wishing to take up clinical academic medicine have hitherto been uncertain and hence unattractive to some. As well as encouraging more high-calibre trainees into academic medicine, the training programmes described are intended to bring greater clarity to those responsible for academic and clinical training and to those who fund research.