The University of Southampton
University of Southampton Institutional Repository

The future of academic medicine - five scenarios to 2025

The future of academic medicine - five scenarios to 2025
The future of academic medicine - five scenarios to 2025
This report is one of three similar and simultaneous publications about current challenges to and alternative futures for academic medicine. The authors, members of the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine (ICRAM), want to stimulate discussion among colleagues who work in academic medicine, as well as practitioners and students of medicine and other health professions. They also hope to reach the men and women who set priorities for academic medicine and allocate resources to and within it.
The authors define academic medicine as the “capacity” of the health sector to “think, study, research, discover, evaluate, innovate, teach, learn, and improve.” Each country allocates responsibility for these tasks differently. In all countries, however, schools of medicine and other health professions and the hospitals, ambulatory care settings, and research units associated with them are central in carrying them out.

Since the second half of the nineteenth century, the institutions of academic medicine have contributed to improving and maintaining health, to national and regional economic development, and to upward socioeconomic mobility for millions of people—students, trainees and employees. Governments and, in some countries, philanthropies generously subsidized the people and institutions of academic medicine for most of the past century because their leaders valued these contributions.

The scenarios in this report suggest that some of the current instabilities in academic medicine could stimulate changes in the priority accorded to it by the public and, as a result, by policymakers—in some countries at least. ICRAM devised these scenarios in order to promote discussion about the instabilities and how they can be addressed in ways that strengthen the contribution of academic medicine to the public good
1-887748-63-6
Milbank Memorial Fund
Underwood, T.J.
8e81bf60-edd2-4b0e-8324-3068c95ea1c6
Underwood, T.J.
8e81bf60-edd2-4b0e-8324-3068c95ea1c6

Underwood, T.J. (2005) The future of academic medicine - five scenarios to 2025 , New York, USA. Milbank Memorial Fund, 50pp.

Record type: Book

Abstract

This report is one of three similar and simultaneous publications about current challenges to and alternative futures for academic medicine. The authors, members of the International Campaign to Revitalise Academic Medicine (ICRAM), want to stimulate discussion among colleagues who work in academic medicine, as well as practitioners and students of medicine and other health professions. They also hope to reach the men and women who set priorities for academic medicine and allocate resources to and within it.
The authors define academic medicine as the “capacity” of the health sector to “think, study, research, discover, evaluate, innovate, teach, learn, and improve.” Each country allocates responsibility for these tasks differently. In all countries, however, schools of medicine and other health professions and the hospitals, ambulatory care settings, and research units associated with them are central in carrying them out.

Since the second half of the nineteenth century, the institutions of academic medicine have contributed to improving and maintaining health, to national and regional economic development, and to upward socioeconomic mobility for millions of people—students, trainees and employees. Governments and, in some countries, philanthropies generously subsidized the people and institutions of academic medicine for most of the past century because their leaders valued these contributions.

The scenarios in this report suggest that some of the current instabilities in academic medicine could stimulate changes in the priority accorded to it by the public and, as a result, by policymakers—in some countries at least. ICRAM devised these scenarios in order to promote discussion about the instabilities and how they can be addressed in ways that strengthen the contribution of academic medicine to the public good

Text
0507FiveFutures.pdf - Version of Record
Restricted to Repository staff only

More information

Published date: 2005

Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 149433
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/149433
ISBN: 1-887748-63-6
PURE UUID: c511fe1b-5343-4966-bfe2-86925bd4134b
ORCID for T.J. Underwood: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9455-2188

Catalogue record

Date deposited: 29 Jun 2010 14:17
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:48

Export record

Download statistics

Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.

View more statistics

Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0

Contact ePrints Soton: eprints@soton.ac.uk

ePrints Soton supports OAI 2.0 with a base URL of http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2

This repository has been built using EPrints software, developed at the University of Southampton, but available to everyone to use.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive cookies on the University of Southampton website.

×