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Engaging in Statistical Practice in Academia is Honorable Michael J. Schell Moffitt Cancer Center Research Institute The Methodologist and the Practitioner The roles of a statistical methodologist and a statistical practitioner, while overlapping somewhat, are distinct. Academia still needs to learn how to properly define the proper expectations and rewards for the statistical practitioner FSU Builds a New Academic Building Circa 1978 Two of following four departments should move to the new building: Mathematics, Meteorology, Oceanography, Statistics. What split would be best? Apparently some departments are too academically too close for comfort. The Farmer and the Cowman Should be FriendsOklahoma – Rodgers and Hammerstein Pro-farmer Id like to say a word for the farmer, He come out west and made a lot of changes Pro-cowman He come out west and built a lot of fences, And built em right acrost our cattle ranges.  The Farmer and the Cowman Should be Friends Pro-cowman The farmer should be sociable with the cowboy if he rides by and asks for food and water.Dont treat him like a louse make him welcome in your house. Pro-farmerBut be sure that you lock up your wife and daughters! Societal Costs to Poor Medical Training While systems designed to cull the best from the rest might be desirable in situations like baseball’s World Series, this ought not to be our design in the training of medical students. We want each medical school graduate to have mastered all the material considered important. At present, those doctors in need of remedial assistance are often not identified until some kind of ex-post screening process is undertaken, such as in-service examinations, specialty board certifications, or malpractice lawsuits. Innovator’s Prescription, p. 352-3 Medical Schools in La-La Land What roles are today’s leading medical schools playing in training the caregivers we’ll need? In fact, they’re training more and more of the doctors we won’t need, an