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Tue 4 Jun, 2013 12:27 am
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Diversity: A Prerequisite for World Leadership
As a standard-bearer for intellectual rigor, HMS must aspire to diversify the ranks of academic medicine. In attracting the best and brightest minds, in training tomorrow’s national and international leaders, and in setting standards of excellence in all that we do, HMS leaders, faculty, staff and students must embrace the principles of equal opportunity and inclusion—and substantially increase our efforts to recruit, retain, nurture and promote those who represent the best of this world. School leaders must actively and persistently champion diversity as a critical core value, broadly defined with respect not only to race and gender but also to other characteristics that provide for the robust academic environment that leads to excellence.
@oristarA,
It has been voted down, yet no one would like to reply?
Well, here I add another trivial question:
Does "not hardly" mean "not impossible"?
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Not hardly, but it is a step in the right direction.
@oristarA,
No, it means consistency.
An attempted short definition of intellectual rigour (US spelling: "rigor") might be that no suspicion of double standard be allowed: uniform principles should be applied. If a topic or case is dealt with in a rigorous way, it means that it is dealt with in a comprehensive, thorough and complete way, leaving no room for inconsistencies.
@contrex,
I think I'd be hard-pressed to put that any better myself.
Intellectual rigour also means striving to meet the highest academic standards (in a teaching establishment).
@oristarA,
Not hardly means 'no'. Just no way.
Thank you all.
PS: The meaning of " the ranks of academic medicine" is not very clear to me.
Does it specifically refer to "the faculty of our university medicine"? Not likely, but I fail to catch the exact meaning.,
@oristarA,
That's the meaning. It's so common I won't object that it sounds like ranks and files of soldiers lined up for inspection.
@oristarA,
Quote: The meaning of " the ranks of academic medicine" is not very clear to me.
It refers to all the people engaged in academic medicine, and in particular, to their opinions.
@McTag,
McTag wrote:
Quote: The meaning of " the ranks of academic medicine" is not very clear to me.
It refers to all the people engaged in academic medicine, and in particular, to their opinions.
What does "academic medicine" mean?
@oristarA,
Quote:What does "academic medicine" mean?
Research into medical matters, and the study and teaching of medical matters at university level.
Medical academia.
@McTag,
Good answer, McTag. Interesting. Thanks.
@McTag,
McTag wrote:
Good answer, McTag. Interesting. Thanks.
Can McTag be the sockpuppet itself?
Who are you? Have you stolen McTag's A2K account?
@oristarA,
Just wondering if anyone would acknowledge my answer.
Thanks. It WAS excellent, wasn't it?
@McTag,
McTag wrote:Just wondering if anyone would acknowledge my answer.
Thanks. It WAS excellent, wasn't it?
It was an excellent answer. It is slightly odd that an apparent medical student should need to ask what academic medicine is.
@contrex,
I think he's a translator, but one who often works on medical texts.
But I may be wrong.
Rather him than me.
It's astonishing the breadth and range of texts Ori comes up with.
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
McTag wrote:Just wondering if anyone would acknowledge my answer.
Thanks. It WAS excellent, wasn't it?
It was an excellent answer. It is slightly odd that an apparent medical student should need to ask what academic medicine is.
Is it easy to give a clear definition? Medicine is a medical science and it should be generally applicable both in theory and practice. But "academic" sounds theoretical only... of course it is probably due to a lack of knowledge about the English word.
@oristarA,
Words in several are slippery little devils. Someone once asked about 'academy' or 'college'. Whichever, it turned out to mean some sort of organization, and not an institution of learning. Possibly it was one of your questions, but it did kind of show the need to learn each word with its various meanings. Sometimes, you can get there from context; sometimes not.
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