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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on September 13, 2005
Rheumatology 2005 44(11):1339-1340; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kei098
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

EDITORIAL

Planning your research training

A. P. Cope, F. M. Brennan, J. S. Hill Gaston2 and D. O. Haskard1

The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division and 1 Eric Bywaters Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London and 2 Department of Rheumatology, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Correspondence to: A. P. Cope, The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, 1, Aspenlea Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8LH, UK. E-mail: andrew.cope@imperial.ac.uk

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The rise and fall of academic medicine is now a widely recognized problem [1–3]. While the Academic Careers SubCommittee of the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) in consultation with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges are making valiant attempts at resurrecting an academic track [4–6], many clinical trainees around the UK are struggling to find ways to integrate a period of research into their clinical training programme. We endorse the idea that defined academic career paths should be structured and evolve early (perhaps as early as in medical school), but at the very least have their foundations placed firmly during the basic specialist training period, with flexibility built in. We also favour the idea that all trainees should undertake a period of research, not as a means of obtaining a consultant post but as an integral part of training. Research training . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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