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 2008-2009 academic year to a total of 3087 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.

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