title: The Chief Scientist reports ... hearing research at the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research (Scottish Section).
abstract: In addition to conducting research with the Section's own resources from the MRC and the Scottish Home and Health Department, the Section stimulates collaborative clinical research with the University and Health Service Departments. This work would be unlikely to take place without the existence of the Scottish Section of the MRC Institute of Hearing Research. Its presence has contributed to the continuing recognition of the Royal Infirmary Departments as an attractive centre for postgraduate training by both British and overseas graduates, leading in time to a substantial body of clinical research in ENT. This close interlinking between a research unit and an academic otolaryngology department is most unusual in the UK and encourages a programme which contains elements of readily applicable clinical research. Clinical and scientific environments are mutually stimulating, so the Section also incorporates in Glasgow some more fundamental laboratory-based studies also, which aim to investigate underlying issues in the diagnosis and management of otological conditions.
authors.affiliation: MRC Institute of Hearing Research (Scottish Section), Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gatehouse
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000458:organization & administration; D001298:Audiology; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics*; D012606:Scotland