RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The campaign to revitalise academic medicine kicks off
JF Heart
JO Heart
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
SP 833
OP 834
VO 90
IS 8
A1 Tugwell, P
YR 2004
UL http://heart.bmj.com/content/90/8/833.abstract
AB Most cardiologists will be aware of the problems that exist at present in academic medicine, and the fact that many of the most able academic doctors do not go into academe. The inevitable consequence is that progress is slowed. The BMJ is spearheading a campaign to revitalise this issue and have appointed Professor Peter Tugwell to coordinate this project—one of his first steps was to write an editorial which appeared simultaneously in the BMJ and the Lancet in March 2004. This editorial is reprinted below so as to bring this very important issue to the notice of the cardiological community.