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.
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The protracted civil war in the Sudan has had an immense human and economic cost. The consequent collapse of infrastructure in the south of the country has disrupted the provision of basic health care, and primary health care schemes to eradicate trypanosomiasis and dracunculiasis have been rendered impossible. Operation Lifeline Sudan, an official United Nations umbrella organisation, has been in a unique position to provide long-term medical, agricultural, livestock, fishery and emergency food aid in both government held and rebel held areas over about the past decade.