title: 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.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Arthur
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Alberti
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D012106:Research; D006113:United Kingdom