Thank you for this series, has been really useful with my North West interview coming up! Appreciate you making videos about what you're knowledgable about/interested in, even if just for niche audience :)
Thanks for watching! I think there are two ways of approaching this answer. 1/ Personal challenges of being a clinical academic - as covered in the video, balancing clinical duties vs academic time and social life. Although AFP has allocated academic time, it would be very unlikely that the time does not overlap. In addition, the academic block is often confined to F2 so if you are looking to get more output you will likely have to do extra stuff in your own time throughout the foundation years and this can be stressful. 2/ Wider scope of academic challenges - this is a very broad topic and there are loads you can talk about, e.g. conducting ethical research with adequate funding (e.g. obtaining NIHR funding which is very hard vs company funding but has competing interests), increasing number of clinical guidelines and how useful this is in real practice settings (e.g. pressure on GPs to use guidelines in time pressured consultations), transparency and standardisation of results reporting and when research goes wrong (e.g. mesh controversy; PCI vs CABG for MI)... I would recommend to keep a few contemporary papers with some limitations in your head so you can discuss.
