How to succeed: clinical academic careers

Want to have a career as a clinical academic? Want to be a professor one day? Listen to this podcast and find out how to be successful. Keaton Jones talks to Dr Denise Best about the background to integrated clinical academic careers in the UK and pathway for clinical academic training from the academic foundation programme onwards. Application and progression from academic foundation programme (AFP), through the academic clinical fellowship (ACF) programme and academic clinical lecturer programme (ACL) and beyond are discussed, with tips on how to be successful and a frank discussion of the pros and cons of a career as a clinical academic. The content is applicable to any speciality in medicine, but there are a few minutes at the end discussing academic surgery in particular. Useful websites linking to topics in this podcast are www.nihr.ac.uk, www.oucags.ox.ac.uk and www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk Keaton Jones is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Surgery at University of Oxford / Health Education Thames Valley and Dr Denise Best is Clinical Academic Careers Manager at the Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School.