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Research, Audit and Scholarship- Nuisance or Necessity? Success in research is the currency of credibility in 'scholarship' should be an enduring requirement medical schools throughout the world; and the of teachers. Scholarship can be variously defined ability to attract grant support and to publish in but implies scrupulous and critical thinking. The word 'doctor' derives from the Latin word for prestigious journals are the gold standards. It would be foolish not to acknowledge the skill and teacher. The general practitioner, as clinician, imagination of much of what is being done in the teacher or researcher, has a responsibility to fields of basic scientific research to increase our question, to assess the evidence and to respond knowledge and thus help prevent, limit and cure appropriately. The responsibility is one to be taken seriously at two levels, both personally, to disease. At the same time we must be openly critical of the damage that has been done by the ensure continued personal professional growth, trivialization of original thinking and investiga- and on behalf of the discipline, to answer the tion implicit in the 'publish or perish' mentality legitimate criticisms of patients and hospital which is now so clearly identified with the
Family Practice – Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 1, 1985
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