Croatian medical journal
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Croatian medical journal · Feb 2003
Biography Historical ArticleNobel Prize winners for literature as palliative for scientific English.
Plagiarism causes a serious concern in scientific literature. I distinguish two types of plagiarism. What is routinely highlighted and discussed is the reprehensible type of stealing another author's ideas and words. ⋯ The occurrence of autotrophic plagiarism is mainly caused by the lack of proficiency in the current lingua franca of science, ie, English. The writings of 22 Nobel literature laureates who wrote in English, especially their travelogues, essays, and letters to the press can be used for benefit of improving one's own vocabulary and writing skills and style. I suggest the writings of three literati--Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Ernest Hemingway--as palliatives for autotrophic plagiarism in scientific publishing.
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To compare the teaching programs of European medical schools with the minimum requirement medical curriculum recommended by the European University Association. Methods. Information on the curricula was gathered from the websites of 32 medical schools from 18 European countries. The data collected were the number of courses and proportion of each course in the study plan according to the class hours or credits. Each curriculum was compared with the standard medical curriculum recommended by the European University Association. Courses were clustered in 3 large groups: preclinical, clinical, and public health. ⋯ The lack of uniform curriculum in European medical schools makes mutual accreditation and mobility of students very difficult. Great deviations from the standard, ie, medical curriculum recommended by the European University Association, question the possibility of a quick medical curricula reform.