What is Integrated Academic Training?
The Walport report, published in 2005 by a sub-committee of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC)and the NHS Modernising Medical Careers (MMC), made recommendations for initiatives to integrate the development of academic skills with each of the key stages of a clinician's career.
For more details on the Walport Report, see:
- Medically- and dentally-qualified academic staff: Recommendations for training the researchers and educators of the future (March 2005)
View Walport report (NCCRCD website; PDF 884 KB)
As a result, Integrated Academic Training Pathways have now been established through partnerships between Universities, local NHS Trusts and Postgraduate Deaneries. The Integrated Academic Training Pathway consists of three phases:
- Academic Clinical Fellowships are appointed by the North Western Deanery, to take up post in August.
- Clinical Lectureships are appointed by the University of Manchester.
- Clinical Senior Lectureships are advertised and awarded in the Spring by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) to be taken up between August and July the following year.
Integrated Academic Training Programmes
The partnership of the University of Manchester, the North Western Deanery and the NHS North West was very successful in its bids to host Integrated Academic Training Programmes and has 18 Academic Clinical Fellowship Programmes and 15 Clinical Lectureship Programmes approved from 2006-2012.
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