Could reality TV save academic medicine?
Imagine a future where medical schools are answerable to shareholders, where patients decide how doctors should be trained, or where academics compete on TV game shows to win research grants. This could be the future of academic medicine by 2025, according to members of the International Campaign to Revitalize Academic Medicine (ICRAM), launched by the British Medical Journal and partners in November 2003. Their vision for the future was published simultaneously by the BMJ the open access international medical journal PLoS Medicine (http://www.plosmedicine.org) and the Milbank Memorial Fund…