Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past, there has been little chance for personal contact with the faculty," the audit states, but the HPC thinks the tutorial will eliminate this problem. And the new course curriculum will strengthen middle level offerings, "giving a more solid, unspecialized background in the field...
...increase the flexibility of the program and thus meet the various needs of individual students that arise from differences in background, interests and plans for future careers in medicine...
Each Council would be responsible for planning an integrated course for a student within the time allotted to the Council. The Council would be encouraged to set up alternative parallel courses where important difference in background and aptitude exist...
...achieved broad generalizing concepts which reduce the need to know facts. We make this statement, however, in full awareness that it is not possible for every medical student to take from each course the detailed information expected of a Ph.D. candidate in that subject. However, he must acquire sufficient background and familiarity with each field to know when and how to return for further details when these may be helpful to him in his future work. To teach the details before the motivation to lean them exists, is pedagogy doomed to failure. We do not intend our remarks to lead...
...help suffering humanity by introducing them early in their training to patients. This should be done in exercises designed to increase students' awareness of the emotional and socio-economic aspects of the preclinical sciences to pathophysiology of disease. An increasing responsibility for the care of patients, as rapidly as background and clinical skills permit, should also be provided...