OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN ACADEMIC NEUROLOGY - REPORT OF THE LONG-RANGE PLANNING-COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN-NEUROLOGICAL-ASSOCIATION

By most measures, academic neurology is thriving as never before, yet convening forces are changing the face of academic neurology. This rep ort focuses on changes that academic neurology and the American Neurol ogical Association could undertake to seize new opportunities and resi st damaging potential changes, These proposals can be categorized in t he following four major goals: (1) enhance the quality of a smaller ne urology workforce and augment the recruitment of gifted young neurosci entists into neurology; (2) foster new diversity in neurological inves tigation, including clinical research in neurology; (3) document the b enefits and relative costs of neurological care, in general, and of ac ademic neurology, in particular; and (4) foster the role of neurologis ts as teachers to medical caregivers at all levels, including medical students, nonneurological house staff, and primary practitioners.