Canberra needed more than just the clinical school proposed by the ACT Government, according to a leading medical researcher. It needed a full-scale under-graduate medical school and it needed to nurture basic research.
Professor Bob Blanden, the head of the division of cell biology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, said last week that Canberra had good medical research centres that needed a full under-graduate medical school to help bring together pure bio-medical researchers with those with practical problems.
The plan for the clinical school is for students only in their final years to come to Canberra from Sydney University.
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