The dynamnic change that is occuring socially in the 1990s is without precedent in terms of its degree and rate.
Old assumptions are irrelevant and resources markedly less.
Nonetheless it is also a time of opportunity if the values and principles that have sustained us in the past are reinterpreted to engage with emerging realities. This commitment will not change, it will withstand the vicissitudes of changing times. Nor will we witness the disappearance of the need to seek, discover and disseminate knowledge relating to the fundamental processes of life and disease as well as those influences of the social, physical and economic environment which account for health and well-being. These are tasks that will need to be sustained for the millennia. The Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry are coming together in the belief that we are best able to discharge these responsibilities together.