New report describes types of research conducted at academic medical centres
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 07:00
in Health & Medicine
A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Health Policy gives the first detailed look at the types of research currently being conducted within U.S. academic medical centres - medical schools and their affiliated hospitals. The report in the 2 September Journal of the American Medical Association describes how the traditional way of categorising life-science researchers as either basic or applied clinical investigators does not adequately reflect the reality of today's academic medical research...