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Letters Revolution in academic medicine

Revolutionising academic medicine must include communities and patients

BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r159 (Published 04 February 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r159
  1. John J Frey, emeritus professor of family medicine
  1. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
  1. john.frey{at}fammed.wisc.edu

The BMJ’s Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine may be one of the most important processes ever undertaken to tackle the challenges of generalists everywhere.1 O’Ryan and colleagues outline the causes well and accurately. They affect all of us.

In the United States, healthcare is an industry that generates trillions of dollars but leaves millions of people with no …

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