While the clinical training pathway for all doctors has been going through considerable changes in the UK, the Academy has been championing the creation of new opportunities for academic training for doctors.  The Academy’s "Savill" Report, "The Tenured Track Clinician Scientist: a new career pathway to promote recruitment into academic medicine" (2000 - see DOWNLOAD on the right) inspired new standards for postdoctoral clinical research training, in the form of Clinician Scientists.

Consolidating your research experience and building a publication record, while completing Specialist Training, can be challenging. Clearer intermediate paths have now been created, to support developing academic careers, and to provide career routes from general medical training and a PhD to senior lectureships and consultant-level posts.

For those doctors committed to academic medicine, funding for Clinician Scientists and, more recently, new Clinical Lectureships are now available to support the postdoctoral phase of a research career.