Building a sustainable clinical academic workforce to meet the future healthcare needs of Australia and New Zealand: report from the first summit meeting.
The delivery of healthcare that meets the requirements for quality, safety and cost-effectiveness relies on a well-trained medical workforce, including clinical academics whose career includes a specific commitment to research, education and/or leadership. In 2011, the Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand published a review on the clinical academic workforce and recommended the development of an integrated training pathway for clinical academics. A bi-national Summit on Clinical Academic Training was recently convened to bring together all relevant stakeholders to determine how best to do this. An important part understood the lessons learnt from the UK experience after 10 years since the introduction of an integrated training pathway. The outcome of the summit was to endorse strongly the recommendations of the medical deans. A steering committee has been established to identify further stakeholders, solicit more information from stakeholder organisations, convene a follow-up summit meeting in late 2015, recruit pilot host institutions and engage the government and future funders.
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Windsor
School of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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Searle
Department of Surgery, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Hanney
New South Wales Office, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Chapman
Melbourne Office, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.|Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Grigg
Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Choong
Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Mackay
Discipline of Surgery, University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Smithers
Australian Medical Association Council of Doctors-in-Training, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.|Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Churchill
Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
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Carney
Department of Surgery, Monash Medical Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Smith
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Wainer
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.|University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
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Talley
Academic Colorectal Unit, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Gladman
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