A team from Leeds General Infirmary's Academic Department of Paediatrics surveyed all 24 university departments of paediatrics.
Writing in Archives of Disease in Childhood, they reported that in the five-year period to April 2003, there were almost a third fewer lecturers and the number of clinical academic staff fell by seven per cent.
They warned that teaching quality would deteriorate because of the burden placed on remaining staff by a simultaneous 60 per cent rise in the number of medical students in England.
Professor Sir Alan Craft, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, warned that the whole future of paediatric academics and their research was threatened.
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