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Developing critical mass and growing our own academics

P J D Winyard¹, H D Cass², T J Stephenson³, A R Wilkinson⁴, R E Olver⁵

¹ Institute of Child Health, Royal Free and University College London, London, UK
² Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the Institute of Child Health, London
³ Deans Office, The Medical School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
⁴ Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
⁵ Division of Maternal and Child Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK

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R Olver
Division of Maternal and Child Health Sciences, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 9SY, Scotland, UK; r.e.olver{at}dundee.ac.uk

Academic paediatrics is an exciting and rewarding career path but is not immune to the problems of recruitment and retention currently affecting most branches of medicine. The Modernising Medical Careers initiative, with its explicit academic training path, offers an unparalleled opportunity to develop novel schemes that promote recruitment and retention. Coordinated action is required to define, publicise and support the new academic training programmes and to attract the best trainees into them.

Abbreviations: ACF, Academic Clinical Fellowship; MMC, Modernising Medical Careers; NTN (A), National Training Number (Academic)

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