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Leading clinical academic warns of crisis in UK research

Medical academia is experiencing a “deepening crisis” that calls for immediate action, the outgoing acting president of the Academy of Medical Sciences has warned.

In a letter to academy fellows, Paul Stewart said that the number of clinical academics in the UK across the healthcare workforce was falling at an alarming rate. “With the ageing demographic of the current clinical academic workforce, and the imminent expansion in the numbers of doctors that we will train, we are at a critical point where immediate action is essential,” he wrote.

Fewer medical clinical academics were employed in UK universities than in 2010, he added. Between 2010 and … ....

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