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...Faculty is taking a risk by leaving the details of the new curriculum to be worked out by a future committee.“We are going to vote this legislation first and then assign to a committee the job of seeing whether it makes sense in the context of the rest of the curriculum,” he said at yesterday’s meeting. “It should not be the job of an implementation committee to do the simple arithmetic that should precede the vote.”The gap between approval and implementation after...
...dispute, one of the quickest and most effective ways of shutting up your opponent is to accuse them of being irrationally hypersensitive. “Honestly, you’re taking this entire situation completely out of context. Once you lighten up and learn not to take everything so personally, maybe we can talk...
...captures that timing. Whereas now a subtitler can refer to the film on cassette or DVD throughout his or her work, in the old days, they'd see the film just once before writing the subtitles sometimes weeks later based on the spotting list, without a description of the context - a recipe for inaccuracy that probably contributed to dislike of subtitles in the first place...
...says that the experience changed the way she approaches her academic career and her larger view of her position in the global context...
This all comes in the context of an otherwise thoughtful medical curriculum that includes social phenomena that affect patient care, like socio-economic, linguistic, and racial issues. The underlying principle is that we need to learn about issues that are important to our patients–issues that affect patient care. But with religion, the medical school misses its own principle...