A worldwide trend towards fewer clinician-researchers in the medical specialties has been identified. The ratio of clinicians to non-clinicians in academic departments is declining. Possible responses to these trends are briefly surveyed and an innovative research seminar programme for doctoral students in psychiatry is described.
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