Adam Smith talks with Dr Aida Gonzalez, Dr Daniel Jimenez both from University College London and Julieta Camino the University of East Anglia. Three panellists who all come from a clinical background and now find themselves working as academics. This week we explore how they maintain their clinical skills and identify, while working in academia.

Academics with a clinical background and Clinical Academics may research similar things, however how they study and work can be very different. For one, being a clinician remain part of their day job, for others the clinical work may be left behind, but still be at the core of their research.

Typically, a Clinical Academic will be part funded to enable them to split their time between their clinical work and research. But what about those who have broken away to study full time, but who need to maintain their clinical skills or even just remain in that space to support the research they’re doing? How do they maintain their skills and identity as clinicians? Particularly if they intend to return to practice.

This weeks panel share their experiences on why clinical work remains important to their research, and how they avoid losing those skills which were learnt from years of training.

You can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk.

A transcript of this podcast is also available here www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast-maintaining-your-clinical-identity-skills-as-an-academic

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