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Nature Medicine 4, 990 (1998)
doi:10.1038/1967

New rating system for UK universities

David Dickson1

  1. London

British medical schools are locked in a heated debate over how best to respond to suggested changes in the rating system that will be used in 2001 to assess the quality of their research—a key part of the process of deciding how much government money they should receive. At the heart of the dispute is whether, and if so how much, responsibility for drawing up the performance ratings of medical schools in hospital-based clinical research should be allocated to subpanels of experts in particular fields.