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March 16, 2004
Medical Schools: Delivering the Doctors of the Future
Medical Schools: Delivering the Doctors of the Future is a new report on the state of undergraduate medical education from the Chief Medical Officer The Department of Health web site has it at:
Medical Schools: Delivering the Doctors of the Future
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March 09, 2004
Oral evidence to HoCSTC inquiry
The first session of oral evidence to the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee inquiry into scientific publications is now available at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/uc399i/uc39902.htm
Robert Campbell, President, Blackwell Publishing , Richard Charkin, Nature Publishing Group , and Dr John Jarvis, Senior Vice President, Europe, Managing Director, Wiley Europe Limited gave evidence.
There was also a session on 8th March, which isn't up yet, in the Thatcher Room (!) where Julia King, Institute of Physics , Sally Morris, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) , Martin Richardson, Oxford University Press , Nigel Goddard, Axiope, Harold Varmus, Public Library of Science (PLoS) and Vitek Tracz, BioMed Central gave evidence.
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March 05, 2004
BMJ: school exam results matter in medical job applications
A letter in tomorrow's BMJ discusses the significance of A level results in applications for postgraduate job applications
BMJ 2004;328:585 (6 March)
Weir, R E School exam results matter in medical job applications
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BMJ: US learned societies to defy ban on editing articles from embargoed
countries The BMJ reports that a group of American scientific societies is planning to defy a recent US government ruling that has prevented their journals from publishing work by scientists from Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, and Sudan, all countries subject to US trade embargoes.
US learned societies to defy ban on editing articles from embargoed countries
BMJ 2004;328:543 (6 March)
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