UK's Research Assessment Exercise

The Council of Heads of Medical Schools (CHMS) is responding to the Comment by Jangu Banatvala and colleagues on the UK's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE, Feb 5, p 458).1 The Council supports the principles of the RAE and believes that it has served to sharpen the focus of research. The 2008...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2005-03, Vol.365 (9464), p.1025-1025
Main Author: Gordon, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical Research - standards
Medical research
Schools
Schools, Medical
United Kingdom
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Summary:The Council of Heads of Medical Schools (CHMS) is responding to the Comment by Jangu Banatvala and colleagues on the UK's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE, Feb 5, p 458).1 The Council supports the principles of the RAE and believes that it has served to sharpen the focus of research. The 2008 RAE has embraced the need to assess and value work of an applied nature, and the Council will be providing input to the RAE team on the criteria for assessment. UK medical research is internationally viewed as second only to that of the USA in terms of quality, and it is important that the next RAE reflects this. The previous Exercise put medicine in 35th place in the discipline rankings. We believe that it is primarily the underfunding of teaching and research across the university sector that has compromised clinical academic medicine.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)71127-2