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Nature 446, 492 (29 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446492a; Published online 28 March 2007

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Research loses in hasty changes to medical training

Ben Seymour1

  1. The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK

The new system for specialist medical training currently being implemented by the UK government will have dire consequences for the country's biomedical research. The modernizing medical careers (MMC) framework for training doctors comprehensively fails to recognize the importance of academic research in either the recruitment or the training of future medical consultants.

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