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As time goes by: reflections on 40 years of academic medicine and biomedical research
Author(s) -
Firkin Barry G
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1995.tb124766.x
Subject(s) - remuneration , academic medicine , alternative medicine , medical education , medicine , engineering ethics , psychology , political science , engineering , law , pathology
Professor Firkin of the Department of Medicine at Melbourne's Monash University says that, despite considerable advances, many unanswered questions remain in modern medicine. The bright medical minds that may answer these questions are being lost to the cause because of rigid postgraduate training schemes and inadequate remuneration.