Academic units of cardiovascular medicine have traditionally provided a substantial part, if not all, of the clinical service for their teaching hospital. Hence, the clinical load carried by a lecturer or senior lecturer has often been equivalent to that carried by their National Health Service senior registrar and consultant colleagues, inevitably at the expense of research. Yet, the future of...

Objective Major changes in the design and delivery of clinical academic training in the United Kingdom have occurred yet there has been little exploration of the perceptions of integrated clinic academic trainees or educators. We obtained the views of a range of key stakeholders involved in clinical academic training in the East Midlands. Design A qualitative study with inductive iterative th...

We study the effects of various types of education and training on the ability of teachers to promote student achievement. Previous studies on the subject have been hampered by inadequate measures of teacher training and difficulties addressing the non-random selection of teachers to students and of teachers to training. We address these issues by estimating models that include detailed measure...