Guest faculty

Southern California is often portrayed as being on another planet, so it came as a surprise, at a meeting there recently, to find that the doctors did not arrive on roller blades, wearing fluorescent shades.

Lecturing abroad is straightforward if you have invented a new technique like transspecies fertilisation or minimal access caesarean section. If, however, the purpose of the meeting is local postgraduate education the guest faculty becomes uneasy and asks itself thoughtful questions.

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