[Graduate schools under change--case report on a Finnish national graduate school].

The independent status of Finnish doctoral programmes is changing as the funding is being transferred to the universities. The role of universities is correspondingly becoming stronger. The universities will establish a new organization for research training. We wanted to elucidate the significance of the nationally networked Finnish national graduate school of clinical medicine for research training. As an example we used the doctoral programme of the national graduate school of clinical medicine. The quality of research training as well as the continuation of training organizations created by nationally networked doctoral programmes must be guaranteed.