1 Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE2 4HH, UK.
2 Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London WC1N 3BG, UK.
3 Department of Neurology, Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 2QG, UK.
4 Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE5 9RT, UK.
5 MRC Protein Phosphorylation & Ubiquitylation Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK.
6 Centre for Preventive Neurology, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK.
7 Department of Neurology, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London E1 1BB, UK.
8 MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London W1W 7FF, UK.
Devine et al. argue that recent changes to clinical neurology training in the UK have the potential to exacerbate an existing crisis in academic neurology, and discuss what might be done to remedy the situation.