quinta-feira, janeiro 29, 2004
O British Medical Journal de 3/1/2004 tem um magnífico artigo, da autoria de Paola Albertazzi, que eu aqui reproduzo com a devida vénia. É um exercício de imaginação extremamente fácil e óbvio atribuir caras e nomes bem portugueses aos professores de Hogwarts, sobretudo em alguns meios universitários do nosso país (quem quiser que enfie o barrete)...
De qualquer modo, recomendo a consulta regular do BMJ, a única revista científica credível da área da medicina cujos artigos são gratuitos e imediatamente disponíveis pela net.
Aqui fica o texto que motivou este post:
Academic medicine: time for reinvention
Hogwarts may be a useful analogy for improvement
EDITOR—Stewart discusses how to improve clinical research.1 The Harry Potter books may help to understand clinical academics and clinicians and perhaps highlight areas for improvement.
Most clinicians are the Hagrids of the clinical world. They prefer to get on with the job and are usually good at it. They find it hard to deal with the often confusing language of research and harder still to apply it to their understaffed and underfunded services.
Clinical academics are the professors at Hogwarts. Professor Lucius is found mostly, but not exclusively, in many Mediterranean countries. This type of professor is likely to have obtained the position through political slyness or family ties but never because of the quality of research. He or she loves the power, the additional prestige, and the revenue that the title of professor brings.
Professor Gilderoy Lockhart has chosen an academic career for its ample scope for hedonism. Never really able to cope with real medicine, professors like him have chosen just to talk about it, which they usually do well. Their name will appear on scientific papers of sponsored clinical trials for which they are unlikely to have seen a patient.
Albus Dumbledore is the good professor who has the progress of science at heart rather than his own ego. Professors like him are good clinicians for whom research is merely an integral part of everyday practice and who strive to provide patients with the best possible care.
Clinical academics must of course be composites of these professors. However, the representation of the three professors in universities, executive commissions, and grant funding bodies will ultimately determine the quality of the clinical research produced. If Professors Lucius and Gilderoy Lockhart predominate, clinical research is inevitably doomed.
Paola Albertazzi, locum consultant
Centre for Metabolic Bone Disease, Hull HU3 2RW P.Albertazzi@hull.ac.uk
De qualquer modo, recomendo a consulta regular do BMJ, a única revista científica credível da área da medicina cujos artigos são gratuitos e imediatamente disponíveis pela net.
Aqui fica o texto que motivou este post:
Academic medicine: time for reinvention
Hogwarts may be a useful analogy for improvement
EDITOR—Stewart discusses how to improve clinical research.1 The Harry Potter books may help to understand clinical academics and clinicians and perhaps highlight areas for improvement.
Most clinicians are the Hagrids of the clinical world. They prefer to get on with the job and are usually good at it. They find it hard to deal with the often confusing language of research and harder still to apply it to their understaffed and underfunded services.
Clinical academics are the professors at Hogwarts. Professor Lucius is found mostly, but not exclusively, in many Mediterranean countries. This type of professor is likely to have obtained the position through political slyness or family ties but never because of the quality of research. He or she loves the power, the additional prestige, and the revenue that the title of professor brings.
Professor Gilderoy Lockhart has chosen an academic career for its ample scope for hedonism. Never really able to cope with real medicine, professors like him have chosen just to talk about it, which they usually do well. Their name will appear on scientific papers of sponsored clinical trials for which they are unlikely to have seen a patient.
Albus Dumbledore is the good professor who has the progress of science at heart rather than his own ego. Professors like him are good clinicians for whom research is merely an integral part of everyday practice and who strive to provide patients with the best possible care.
Clinical academics must of course be composites of these professors. However, the representation of the three professors in universities, executive commissions, and grant funding bodies will ultimately determine the quality of the clinical research produced. If Professors Lucius and Gilderoy Lockhart predominate, clinical research is inevitably doomed.
Paola Albertazzi, locum consultant
Centre for Metabolic Bone Disease, Hull HU3 2RW P.Albertazzi@hull.ac.uk
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