Professor Tom O'Dowd:

That is a good model. The universities, as they have gone, and the medical schools that I can talk more knowledgeably about, have reneged on their social contract with society. The pressure is on to publish, get research grants, etc., but medical schools have an important local leadership. What the Chairman described is a local leadership model that has no teaching without service, which is an excellent model. We do not have the universities honouring the social contract that they have with society and they have gone down a North American model. The model to which the Chairman refers is a particularly nice one.