Building a sustainable clinical academic workforce to meet the future healthcare needs of Australia and New Zealand: report from the first summit meeting

J Windsor; J Searle; R Hanney; A Chapman; M Grigg; P Choong; A Mackay; B M Smithers; J A Churchill; S Carney; J A Smith; Z Wainer; N J Talley; M A Gladman

doi:10.1111/imj.12854

Building a sustainable clinical academic workforce to meet the future healthcare needs of Australia and New Zealand: report from the first summit meeting

Intern Med J. 2015 Sep;45(9):965-71. doi: 10.1111/imj.12854.

Authors

J Windsor¹, J Searle², R Hanney³, A Chapman⁴, M Grigg^{5

6}, P Choong⁷, A Mackay⁸, B M Smithers⁹, J A Churchill^{10

11}, S Carney¹², J A Smith¹³, Z Wainer¹⁴, N J Talley^{15

16}, M A Gladman¹⁷

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
² School of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
³ Department of Surgery, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁴ New South Wales Office, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁵ Melbourne Office, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁶ Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁷ Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁸ Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁹ Discipline of Surgery, University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
¹⁰ Australian Medical Association Council of Doctors-in-Training, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹¹ Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹² Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
¹³ Department of Surgery, Monash Medical Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁴ Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁵ The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
¹⁶ University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
¹⁷ Academic Colorectal Unit, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

PMID: 26332622
DOI: 10.1111/imj.12854

Abstract

The delivery of healthcare that meets the requirements for quality, safety and cost-effectiveness relies on a well-trained medical workforce, including clinical academics whose career includes a specific commitment to research, education and/or leadership. In 2011, the Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand published a review on the clinical academic workforce and recommended the development of an integrated training pathway for clinical academics. A bi-national Summit on Clinical Academic Training was recently convened to bring together all relevant stakeholders to determine how best to do this. An important part understood the lessons learnt from the UK experience after 10 years since the introduction of an integrated training pathway. The outcome of the summit was to endorse strongly the recommendations of the medical deans. A steering committee has been established to identify further stakeholders, solicit more information from stakeholder organisations, convene a follow-up summit meeting in late 2015, recruit pilot host institutions and engage the government and future funders.

Keywords: academia; clinical; workforce.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Australia / epidemiology
Clinical Competence / standards*
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Health Services Accessibility / organization & administration
Health Services Accessibility / trends*
Humans
Leadership
New Zealand / epidemiology
Professional Competence / standards*
Research Report