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Commentary
Nature Immunology 7, 543 - 547 (2006)
doi:10.1038/ni0606-543

Medicine on a need-to-know basis

Robert Busch1, 2, Belinda Byrne1, 2, Laurie Gandrud1, David Sears1, Everett Meyer1, Michael Kattah1, Christine Kurihara1, Edward Haertel1, Jane R Parnes1 & Elizabeth D Mellins1

1  Robert Busch, Laurie Gandrud, Everett Meyer and Elizabeth D. Mellins are in the Department of Pediatrics; Belinda Byrne is with the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine; David Sears and Edward Haertel are in the School of Education; Michael Kattah and Jane R. Parnes are in the Department of Medicine; and Christine Kurihara is with the BioDesign Program; Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

2  Present addresses: KineMed, Emeryville, California 94608, USA (R.B.), and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA (B.B).

Correspondence should be addressed to Elizabeth D Mellins mellins@stanford.edu

Disease-oriented, introductory medical curricula can help overcome educational and institutional barriers that separate aspiring translational scientists in PhD programs from the world of medicine.

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