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In Reply.
Drs Robinson and St. Peter raise an important issue. The General Pediatric Academic Development Program did not exclude projects on health services research; but its main emphasis clearly was by design on research training in clinically related issues, because it is clear that there are many clinical problems in General Pediatrics that have not been studied adequately. The basic research skills that most of the fellows in this program achieved were in epidemiology, biostatistics, and behavioral science, and these are the basic sciences of health sciences research.