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We appreciate the desire of James McCormack and Peter Loewen to further understand the cause of the disparate number of copies of research applications required for submission to research ethics boards at different universities, as reported in our article.1
However, we were disappointed to learn that the Clinical REB at UBC has arbitrarily singled out our group and henceforth will be demanding 40 copies of any applications from the Department of Family Practice. In response, we plan to foster collaboration by seeking formal cross-appointments to the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences for all members of our department, which we hope will lead to this unfair ruling being overturned. We wish to assure readers that the fact that members of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences get to personally experiment with all the great new drugs has nothing to do with our attempt to join this group.
Ian Scott Department of Family Practice (and, hopefully, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences) University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC
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