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...After a couple years of academic planning by Bloom’s associate deans, the School of Public Health rolled out an alternative, case-based core curriculum this fall for its first-year students. Already, about 40 percent of the 150 first-year students opted to study under the new curriculum...
...applying the case method, long associated with business school instruction, to public health, Bloom and his faculty hoped to foster a culture that emphasized interactive problem solving over rote memorization...
...steering committee of roughly 10 faculty members from each core discipline and led by Nancy Kane, one of the school’s two associate deans of educational programs, convened to create a case-based curriculum that would expose first year students to the five core areas...
...school developed a curriculum that featured five case studies that would run sequentially and take up one semester. The studies covered topics ranging from disease management to artificial turf fields, with each case incorporating some of the five skills required by the accreditation body...
...Students will start their third case for the semester—the one on sex trafficking—next week, having already finished the ones on childhood obesity and fish consumption...