The Medical Schools Council's annual survey of clinical academic staffing levels in UK medical schools reveals an increase in the number of clinical Professors, Senior Lecturers and Lecturers during the 2009-2010 academic year to a total of 3175 Full Time Equivalents.

The increase provides evidence that sustained investment in early career grades is enabling more medical trainees to enter the clinical academic pathway.

Despite this, there are still some areas of concern including the under-representation of women at senior clinical academic grades and low staffing levels in some specialties.

We have also launched an interactive tool to enable users to create graphs, charts and timelines, and download to Excel the underlying data, according to your data needs. The tool will enable you to select variables including medical school, region, funding source and specialty, as well as timelines between 2004 - 2010. This can be accessed on the interactive survey tool page.

More information and previous surveys are available on the Clinical Academia pages.