To the Editor: Two recent articles in the Journal touch on the current plight of medical academics. Hays emphasises the need to reassert the role of teaching in academic medicine — otherwise, “our aim to produce safer, more efficient doctors will be under threat”.1 Joyce and colleagues outline the projected increase in the number of graduates from Australian medical schools, although their concern is more for the post-graduate careers of these young doctors than for their initial clinical training.2
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- 1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD.
- 2 Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, QLD.
- 1. Hays RB. Balancing academic medicine [editorial]. Med J Aust 2007; 186: 110-111. <MJA full text>
- 2. Joyce CM, Stoelwinder JU, McNeil JJ, Piterman L. Riding the wave: current and emerging trends in graduates from Australian university medical schools. Med J Aust 2007; 186: 309-312. <MJA full text>
- 3. Van Der Weyden MB. Increased medical school places: a crisis in the making? Med J Aust 2006; 185: 129. <MJA full text>
- 4. Blackham RE, Rogers IR, Jacobs IG. Medical student input to workforce planning [letter]. Med J Aust 2006; 185: 55-56. <MJA full text>
- 5. Medical Board of Queensland. Notice to all medical specialists in Queensland — information regarding clinical teachers and academic titles with medical schools [leaflet]. Brisbane: MBQ, 2007.