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Those of us who teach undergraduate medical students are well aware of the innate resistance of most embryonic doctors to anything that seems “irrelevant” to clinical practice. Overcoming this resistance has long preoccupied public health teachers throughout the world yet few have managed to come up with a sure fire method. The result has been a continuation of the relative neglect of preventive medicine training in many parts of the world, especially in the older established, traditional medical schools. Is it possible that this is one reason for the scandalous indifference of most medical practitioners and researchers …