Clinical Academic Pathways in Medicine Position Statement 2025
The revised Clinical Academic Pathways in Medicine Position Statement provides a comprehensive framework for rebuilding Australia's clinical academic workforce. The statement addresses critical challenges including the decline in academic positions, the problematic culture of 'CV buffing' for specialist training entry, and the proliferation of poor-quality research.
Due to the competitive nature of entry into vocational training, producing academic articles is often used by trainees to 'CV buff' and by specialist training colleges as a criteria for entry into training — leading to the unintended but not unexpected consequence of the proliferation of poor-quality research.
There is a need to develop sustainable training pathways, funding models and infrastructure in support of clinical academic practice and to revive the attractiveness of clinical academic medicine as a flexible career to support high quality research in Australia.
