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In medicine, in its widest sense, there has always been a reasonably clear distinction between scholarship and research. Scholarship meant keeping abreast of the current state of one’s own subject and those which are closest to it; this may include writing books and papers which expound and systematize what is known. The School did just that during its formative years from 1935 until after the war. Research, on the other hand, meant advancing what is known and uncovering the unknown: this process began in the School during the war years but did not blossom until much later. It is axiomatic that scholarship is part of the duty of every teacher in medicine, and that postgraduate institutions must make adequate provision for scholarship, including provision of libraries and for travel. Research in many branches of medicine can be expensive, and in general is not viewed by others as an essential element of teaching in the same way that those at the Hammersmith insisted it was. For this reason there was real fear that research would suffer irreparably when financial stringency affected the School in the late seventies: that it did not is testimony to the strength of the Hammersmith tradition.
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Calnan, J. (1985). Research. In: The Hammersmith 1935–1985. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6358-3_12
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