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Education at prestigious centres is valuable
EDITOR,--Several questions arising in Fiona Godlee's article on World Health Organisation fellowships need to be addressed.1 These include the value of education at prestigious centres (of which the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is a leading example), the role of externally imposed objectives in education, and the WHO's priorities. Examination of the WHO may be justified, but the more general conclusions do not follow.Both young students and professionals in midcareer come to prestigious centres because they obtain value for money. At the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine one in five overseas students finance their own studies. The school enables students to build a one year course to complete a unique training related to their professional objectives. For established professionals this is a well proved mechanism for intellectual refurbishment and development. To obtain such programmes elsewhere requires infrastructural and academic investment.
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