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EDITOR,
The mission of academic medical
centres typically includes three distinct goals: providing patient
care, educating future doctors, and acquiring new medical
knowledge.1 Academic medical centres seek excellence in
each of the three areas to distinguish themselves as outstanding in the
local community, region, and nation.2 3 Factors
responsible for poor academic performance in less privileged centres
include a failure in academic motivation, lack of pressure for
publication, and limited research funding.4 Ours is a
tertiary neonatal care centre for North Queensland, Australia.
Geographically, we are isolated from the well established academic
centres in Australia. The nursery was almost closed down due to some
unfortunate events in 1995 resulting in our appointment in 1996 as the
new neonatologists. We were expected to get the nursery functioning to
its full potential (eight ventilators, on site surgery, regional
transport) and hopefully gain some academic status to justify being the
regional teaching hospital. With
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