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The Balancing Act of Academic Clinical Fellows in UK Emergency Medicine: A Qualitative Study

2025-07-18 emergency medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundEmergency medicine (EM) faces workforce challenges in sustaining clinical academic careers. Academic Clinical Fellowships (ACFs) offer protected research time, but little is known about how EM ACFs experience and navigate these posts. MethodsSemi-structured interviews with 20 current and former EM ACFs across 12 UK regions. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis following Braun and Clarkes six-phase approach. A mixed inductive and deductive framework was applied. Reflexivity...

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