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題 名 | A Personal Journey to Academic Freedom via Research and Education in Medical Sciences=一趟醫學教育與醫學研究之旅 |
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作 者 | 關超然; | 書刊名 | Journal of Medical Sciences |
卷 期 | 24:3 2004.06[民93.06] |
頁 次 | 頁161-171 |
分類號 | 410.3 |
關鍵詞 | 醫學教育; 醫學研究; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | I am privileged to be invited to provide a review article to be published in a journal indigenous to Taiwan, such as Journal of Medical Sciences. Especially as the invitation was also associated with the honor of being appointed the Visiting Professor at the National Defense Medical College in November, 2003 under the auspices of the National Science Council of Taiwan. Despite having been honored in a similar manner by 10 top medical schools in mainland China, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong and the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Singapore, that Taiwan, where I spent my 13 years of childhood, and helped many medical schools in the reform or medical education during the past decade of my professional life, has offered this honor is unique. I also felt some unease with this invitation, because having written many contemporary reviews in recent years pertaining to various specific scientific subjects of my interest and expertise, I basically felt little enthusiasm to write another comprehensive scientific review. Fortunately, the editor of Journal of Medical Sciences did not impose any particular subject or format on my review, thus allowing me a high degree of flexibility. Therefore, I am taking the risk of recapitulating the life and spirit of my academic career as a basic medical scientist in both research and education. Indeed, the domain of my research interests is clearly reflected from my published work as listed and summarized in Entrez-PubMed. What may be more valuable, and not accessible from a PubMed search is a description of the processes from which lessons were learned while working toward the goals of my career. My personal experiences taught me to value how scientific problems are defined, approached, researched, assessed and disseminated much more so than acquiring the factual contents of the medical sciences. This review is dedicated to all young biomedical scientists, especially those in Taiwan who have access to this journal. The risk I am taking in presenting the following review in an autobiographical style rests in the eyes of the beholders, because they may view it as being academically inspiring, or professionally gratifying, or even personally grandiloquent. |
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