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George A. Silver, Professor of Public Medicine in the School of Medicine, Yale University, argues that medical education should be separated from research if the best doctors and research workers are to be produced.
The first of two articles commenting on the research policy and universities of Greece by E M Pantelouris describes the patriarchal and bureaucratic structure of Greece's higher education system.