TCT editorial: The Clinical Teacher in adolescence

Abstract

Twenty years of The Clinical Teacher (TCT): a cause for celebration and a time to reminisce. When the first issue of TCT was published in 2004, I was a recent arrival in Australia having left the United Kingdom for an academic post in the north of Queensland. Life was certainly different in the tropics. The new journal was also different to other contemporary scholarly publications in its use of colour and pictures and shorter, more practical articles. The first editorial from John Bligh introduced the 'magazine' as 'focusing on medical education, especially written for teaching clinicians'. 1I have written many times about the importance of context to frame one's teaching and health professional practice for learners and readers. Australia has many similarities to my country of birth, but it took time to understand and work within a non-identical health service and funding model. New arrivals need to be humble, receptive to advice and flexible to meet the needs of the populations they serve. This applies to educators, health professionals and, yes, journals and their editors.In 2014, I became co editor-in-chief. In my first editorial, I suggested that TCT was now entering its adolescence. In human