Abstract The Academy of Medical Sciences has matured quickly and found a distinctive
niche amongst leading opinion formers and policy makers in healthcare and biomedical …

Medical science, so this argument goes, brings tremendous benefits but tremendous losses
too. Somehow one senses that this tarnished view of science is seeping into the public …

The UK has an excellent record of producing physician scientists who have become
international leaders and achieved major breakthroughs in both the clinical and scientific …

The Academy of Medical Sciences came into being in November 1998. Following a long
gestation, when various attempts to form an academy for medicine and the medical sciences …

Professor Firkin of the Department of Medicine at Melbourne's Monash University says that,
despite considerable advances, many unanswered questions remain in modern medicine …

President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address found inspirational words to extol the twin
virtues of self-help and toil for the common good. Although many academic clinicians are …

Sir, I wish to comment in a personal capacity on your timely and welcome review of the need
for physician scientists1. It is understandable that much of the current emphasis relating to …

Johnson's words were aimed at a widower intent upon remarriage, they might apply in equal
measure to aca-demic medicine. The experience of many clinical aca-demics is that life is …

A career as a clinical academic combines the immense rewards of being a clinician with the
potential to make groundbreaking discoveries which can deepen our understanding of …

Clinical research is essential for patients to benefit from the advances of medical science.
Particularly needed are thorough and imaginative investigations into applied physiology …