Abstract
Professional societies play a major role in medicine and science. The societies tend to be large with well-developed administrative structures. An additional model, however, is based on small groups of experts who meet regularly in an egalitarian model in order to discuss disease-specific scientific and medical problems. In order to illustrate the effectiveness of this model, the history and practices are examined of a long-standing successful example, the International Liver Pathology Group, better known as the Gnomes. The history shows that groups such as the Gnomes offer a number of important benefits not available in larger societies and nurturing such groups advances science and medicine in meaningful ways. The success of the Gnomes’ approach provides a road map for future small scientific groups.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 191-200 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Virchows Archiv |
Volume | 478 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2021 |
Keywords
- History
- Liver
- Model
- Pathology
- Scientific group
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology