1Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul. 2Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul. 3Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul. 4Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul. 5Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul. 6Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul. 7Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul.
ABSTRACT
Over the past years, university administrators have known how hard it is to transform into the modern university.
Rigid in-bred research system, narrow interest, unworkable graduate programs are complicatedly woven into a network of academic fraction. Cronyism and protectionism flood various laboratories and research institutes affiliated with the university. Until recently, the department structure of medical school has steadfastly guarded its territory and refused to allow non-medical undergraduate students to apply for the graduate schools of medical science. The graduate schools in medical science are considered just extra appendages because most of graduate students should be engaged in hard work position such as junior faculty or residentship training course of university hospital. In the present environment of graduate program, medical schools are consequently not able to bring in full-time young researchers, but only recently has its door been open for others.
It should be time to reorganize the medical school graduate course into large multidisciplinary research group by expanding graduate programs.
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